A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod
- DMI number:
- 30028
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod
- Last Line:
- Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Epistle
- Themes:
- Fame and Virtue / vice[honesty]
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Man Epistle IV. Twickenham edition III i.
- First Line:
- O happiness our being's end and aim
- Last Line:
- And all our knowledge is ourselves to know
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod
- Last Line:
- An honest man's the noblest work of God
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod
- Last Line:
- But an honest man's the noblest work of God
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Man. Epistle 4.
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