By the loud trumpet which our courage aids

DMI number:

9581

Poem Aliases

Waller. On Roscommon's Horace's art of poetry.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

By the loud trumpet which our courage aids

Last Line:

We learn that sound as well as sense persuades

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet

Themes:

Advice / moral precepts

Related People

Author:

Edmund Waller

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Upon the Earl of Roscommon's Translation of Horace ('Rome was not better by her Horace taught'). Chalmers (1810) VIII: 69.

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First Line:

By the loud trumpet that our courage aids

Last Line:

We learn that sound as well as sense persuades

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Variant Of

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Content/Publication

Title:

The agreeable variety. In two parts [T61602]

Page No(s):

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

From Mr Settle

Attributed To:

Elkanah Settle

Title:

The agreeable variety. In two parts. [T61568]

Page No(s):

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

From Mr Settle

Attributed To:

Elkanah Settle

Title:

The agreeable variety: being a miscellaneous collection in prose and verse from the works of the most celebrated authors [T61569]

Page No(s):

p.181

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

From Mr Settle

Attributed To:

Elkanah Settle