While in dark ignorance men lay afraid
- DMI number:
- 15736
- First Line:
- While in dark ignorance men lay afraid
- Last Line:
- And superstition all the world beside
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fame and Philosophical enquiry
- Author:
- John Sheffield
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Extract from On Mr Hobbes and his writings ('Such is the mode of these censorious days'). Chalmers (1810) X: 96-97.
- First Line:
- Such is the mode of these censorious days
- Last Line:
- To save herself was forced to let him die
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams [vol. 2] [T170823]
- Page No(s):
- XIX.
- Poem Title:
- On Hobbes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. [Vol. II] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- XIX.
- Poem Title:
- On Hobbes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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