But as extremes are short of ill and good
- DMI number:
- 37725
- First Line:
- But as extremes are short of ill and good
- Last Line:
- Took a malicious pleasure to destroy | Tancred who fondly loved &c
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Sigismonda and Guiscardo. Calif. VII (2000): 221.
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [2nd ed] [Vol 1] [T83735] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [3rd ed] [Vol 1] [T82693] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- Reliques of ancient English poetry [4th ed] [Vol 1] [T81998] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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