Hence satire's power tis her corrective part
- DMI number:
- 30878
- First Line:
- Hence satire's power tis her corrective part
- Last Line:
- And slaves and sycophants surround in vain
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Corruption, Poetry / literature / writing, Virtue / vice, and Wit
- Author:
- John Brown
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- LION: Extract from 'An Essay on Satire' (1763) ('Fate gave the word; the cruel arrow sped')
- First Line:
- Fate gave the word the cruel arrow sped
- Last Line:
- That guilt is doomed to sink in infamy
- 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):
- pp.101-103
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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