Custom the world's great idol we adore
- DMI number:
- 30276
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Custom the world's great idol we adore
- Last Line:
- We live and learn but never the wiser grow
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Moral and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- John Pomfret
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Reason: A Poem ('Unhappy man who through successive years'). Chalmers (1810) VIII: 308-313.
- First Line:
- A fowler's dog with curious eye
- Last Line:
- Mimick with pride their master's crimes
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Unhappy man who through successive years
- Last Line:
- The glittering gem our fleeting life is over
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [N67747] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XVIII. Custom is Second Nature.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T127913] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XVIII. Custom is second Nature.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T128069] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.112
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XVIII. Custom is second to Nature.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pomfret. Reason.
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