Forgive the gods the rest and stand confined
- DMI number:
- 5952
- First Line:
- Forgive the gods the rest and stand confined
- Last Line:
- That all things weighs and nothing can admire
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Dryden's Tenth Satire of Juvenal ('Look round the habitable world, how few'); Calif. IV (1974): 239-41.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.102
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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