He sought fresh mountains in a foreign soil
- DMI number:
- 37092
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- He sought fresh mountains in a foreign soil
- Last Line:
- The pleasure lessened the attending toil
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Imitation / translation / paraphrase
- Themes:
- Landscapes
- Author:
- Joseph Addison
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus ('Now Salamacis with weak enfeebling streams'). Chalmers (1810) IX: 560-561.
- Translated from:
- Ovid
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- How Salmacis with weak enfeebling streams
- Last Line:
- And tinged its source to make his wishes good
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- How Salmacis with weak enfeebling streams
- Last Line:
- To weaken it and make his wishes good
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Exercises for improvement in elocution [T126614] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.43
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Addison.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
Poem Aliases
Ovid. Metamorphoses. Book 4.
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