Behold the African
- DMI number:
- 14178
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Behold the African
- Last Line:
- Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Drama and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Other countries[African.]
- Author:
- Joseph Addison
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Cato Act 1 Scene 4. Chalmers (1810) IX: 576-597.
- 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.7
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Add. Cato.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry, extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets [T115504] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.293
- Poem Title:
- The Life of an African. [Addison.]
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry, extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets. [T119553] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.272
- Poem Title:
- The Life of an African. [Addison.]
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry; extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets ... The fourth edition [T121136] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.272
- Poem Title:
- The Life of an African. [Addison.]
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry; extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets. ... The fifth edition [T202612] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.272
- Poem Title:
- The Life of an African. [Addison.]
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
Poem Aliases
Addison. Cato.
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