Envy will merit as its shade persue
- DMI number:
- 1369
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Envy will merit as its shade persue
- Last Line:
- Reflect new glories and augment the day
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Manners
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Criticism. Twickenham edition I.
- First Line:
- As on the ground a persian lay
- Last Line:
- Thus merit shines and envy dies
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Envy will merit as its shade pursue
- Last Line:
- The opposing body's grossness not its own
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims and other little lessons of morality in prose and verse [N67747] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XXIII. Merit will shine in Spite of Opposition.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims and other little lessons of morality in prose and verse [T127913] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XXIII. Merit will shine in Spite of Opposition.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims and other little lessons of morality in prose and verse [T128069] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XXIII. Merit will shine in Spite of Opposition.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Altar of Love [12 Theta 1321]
- Page No(s):
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- Envy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Altar of Love: [Harding C 105] [N16438]
- Page No(s):
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- Envy
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A general history of the stage; with pieces of poetry never before published [T88607]
- Page No(s):
- p.219
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- 'by the inimitable Pen of Mr. Pope' [p.219]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- A general history of the stage; with pieces of poetry never before published [T88608]
- Page No(s):
- p.221.00
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- 'by the inimitable Pen of Mr. Pope' [p.221]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- The altar of love. Consisting of poems and other miscellanies [ESTC N16485]
- Page No(s):
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- Envy.
- Attribution:
- Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Criticism.
Related People
Related Poems
Content/Publication