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
- 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:
- 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
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- 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 [T117520] [ecco]
- 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 [T118537 ] [ecco]
- 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 [T119955] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.115
- 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 [T119967] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.115
- 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 [T123215] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.115
- 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
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