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Entrust thy fortune to the powers above

DMI number:
25485
First Line:
Entrust thy fortune to the powers above
Last Line:
Ah that we loved ourselves but half so well
Poem Genre / Form:
Imitation / translation / paraphrase and Extract / snippet from longer work
Themes:
Fate / fortune / providence
Related People
Author:
John Dryden
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from The tenth satire of Juvenal ('Look round the habitable world, how few'); Calif. IV (1974) 239.
Translated from:
Juvenal
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Related Poems
First Line:
Look round the habitable world how few
Last Line:
But set aloft by fools usurps the skies
Relationship:
Extract Of/Extracted In
Comments:
First Line:
What then remains are we deprived of will
Last Line:
Oh that we loved our selves but half so well
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Variant Of
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Content/Publication
Title:
The moral miscellany or, a collection of select pieces in prose and verse for the instruction and entertainment of youth [N4192]
Page No(s):
p.116
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Dryden.
Attributed To:
John Dryden
Title:
The moral miscellany or, a collection of select pieces in prose and verse for the instruction and entertainment of youth [T129749] [ecco]
Page No(s):
pp.117-118
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Dryden.
Attributed To:
John Dryden
Title:
The moral miscellany or, a collection of select pieces in prose and verse for the instruction and entertainment of youth [T131121]
Page No(s):
p.115
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Dryden.
Attributed To:
John Dryden