A perfect judge will read each work of wit
- DMI number:
- 30645
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- A perfect judge will read each work of wit
- Last Line:
- Dulness is ever apt to magnify
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Poetry / literature / writing, and Wit
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Criticism. Twickenham edition I.
- First Line:
- A perfect judge will read each work of wit
- Last Line:
- Invention labours less but judgment more
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The art of poetry on a new plan [vol I] [ESTC T56146] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.200-201
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Criticism.
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