A perfect judge will read each work of wit
- DMI number:
- 29633
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- A perfect judge will read each work of wit
- Last Line:
- Invention labours less but judgment more
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Composite poem, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Contains extracts from Essay on Criticism. Twickenham edition I: 239-326.
- Author:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Contains extract from An essay on translated verse. Chalmers (1810) VIII: 261-264.
- First Line:
- A perfect judge will read each work of wit
- Last Line:
- Dulness is ever apt to magnify
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The entertainer; containing great variety of instructive entertainment [Vol I] [T100454]
- Page No(s):
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- Of Candid Readers
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Roscommon. Essay on translated verse.
Pope. Essay on Criticism.
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