Envy will merit as its shade pursue
- DMI number:
- 29808
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Envy will merit as its shade pursue
- Last Line:
- The opposing body's grossness not its own
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Manners[Envy]
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Criticism. Twickenham edition I.
- First Line:
- Envy will merit as its shade persue
- Last Line:
- Reflect new glories and augment the day
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- Envy
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Criticism.
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