While faster than his costive brain indites
- DMI number:
- 12487
- First Line:
- While faster than his costive brain indites
- Last Line:
- So may he cease to write and learn to think
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Couplet
- Themes:
- Personal insults and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Matthew Prior
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Wright and Spears I: 397.
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixed, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [Vol. I] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- CLXXIX.
- Poem Title:
- Cacoethes Scribendi.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixd, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [ESTC T41]
- Page No(s):
- CLXXXIII.
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86025]
- Page No(s):
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- LXXIX. The Scribbler.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
- Page No(s):
- p.104
- Poem Title:
- CCCLX.
- Attribution:
- By the same.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- The art of poetry made easy, [...]: being the seventh volume of the Circle of the sciences [T120153]
- Page No(s):
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- The art of poetry on a new plan [vol I] [ESTC T56146] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. II. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- p.148
- Poem Title:
- CV. Cacoethes Scribendi.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86180]
- Page No(s):
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- The Scribbler.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. Prior]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86181] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- The Scribbler.
- Attribution:
- By the same. [i.e. Prior]
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol II] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.148
- Poem Title:
- Cacoethes Scribendi.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
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