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Fashioned alike by nature and by art

DMI number:
17574
First Line:
Fashioned alike by nature and by art
Last Line:
In private life by all who knew her loved
Poem Genre / Form:
Epigram, Elegy, and Couplet
Themes:
Death and Theatre
Related People
Author:
John Hervey
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
c.f. Overton: possibly by Hervey. Attributed to him in Thomas Park's additions to Walpole's Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1806) IV:188.
Author:
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
Confidence:
Confident (50%)
Comments:
Variant of these lines appear in 'John Duke of Marlborough', attributed to Montagu in Halsband and Grundy: 224-5.
Content/Publication
Title:
A choice collection of poetry by the most ingenious men of the age [vol 1] [T124643] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
p.21
Poem Title:
On the Death of Mrs. Oldfield.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed