If misfortune comes she brings along
- DMI number:
- 37455
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- If misfortune comes she brings along
- Last Line:
- Even wish the frown beyond the smile of fortune
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Drama, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Blank verse
- Themes:
- Ambition, Fate / fortune / providence, and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- James Thomson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Sophonisba Act 1 Scene 4 (1730: T100038).
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry; extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets ... The fourth edition [T121136] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.284
- Poem Title:
- The happy Effects of Misfortune. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry; extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets. ... The fifth edition [T202612] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.284-285
- Poem Title:
- The happy Effects of Misfortune. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
Poem Aliases
Thomson. Sophonisba.
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