Yet still how faint by precept is expressed
- DMI number:
- 30497
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Yet still how faint by precept is expressed
- Last Line:
- An angel's sweetness or Bridgewater's eyes
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Art / painting and Beauty
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Epistle to Mr. Jervas. Twickenham edition VI: 156-158.
- First Line:
- This verse be thine my friend nor thou refuse
- Last Line:
- Thou but preservest a form and I a name
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pope. Epistle to Mr. Jervas with Dryden's translation of Fresnoy's Art of Painting.
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