Be still and learn the smoothing arts of courts
- DMI number:
- 18544
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Be still and learn the smoothing arts of courts
- Last Line:
- And when they praise him most be you the loudest
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- High society / the court
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Don Sebastian Act 1 Scene 1. Calif. XV (1976): 81 ['Be still and learn the soothing arts of courts]
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dr. D. Sebast.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Don Sebastian.
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