While you my friend were pleading at the bar
- DMI number:
- 23337
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- While you my friend were pleading at the bar
- Last Line:
- Nor press upon you if you lead the way
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Couplet, and Epistle
- Themes:
- Ancient history, Hopelessness / vanity of life, and Virtue / vice
- Translated from:
- Horace
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Sneyd Davies
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Hardinge (1816): 95-98.
- Title:
- A collection of original poems and translations [ESTC T101302]
- Page No(s):
- pp.116-127
- Poem Title:
- To C.P. Esq. Translation of Horace, Book I. Epist. II.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Whaley's name.
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
- Title:
- A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 6] [T93622] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.147-150
- Poem Title:
- To Charles Pratt, Esq. From Horace, Book I. Epist. II.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Whaley
- Attributed To:
- John Whaley
Poem Aliases
Horace. Epistles. Book 1 Epistle 2
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