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Whoever would deposed truth advance

DMI number:
6945
First Line:
Whoever would deposed truth advance
Last Line:
And the sharp points of envious wit
Poem Genre / Form:
Quatrain abab and Extract / snippet from longer work
Themes:
Dunces and Education
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Author:
Abraham Cowley
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Waller (1905): 448. Extract from Cowley's To the Royal Society ('Philosophy the great and only Heir')
Content/Publication
Title:
A supplement to the Athenian Oracle [T105985]
Page No(s):
p.15
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
the incomparable Cowley
Attributed To:
Abraham Cowley