Let truth and virtue be their earliest teachers
- DMI number:
- 30092
- First Line:
- Let truth and virtue be their earliest teachers
- Last Line:
- That scorches freezes racks and kills the beggar
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Drama, Advice, and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- David Mallet
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from David Mallet 'Alfred a Masque' (1773)
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.53-54
- Poem Title:
- Instruction
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry, extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets [T115504] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.303
- Poem Title:
- In what Manner Princes ought to be Taught. [Mallet.]
- Attribution:
- Mallet.
- Attributed To:
- David Mallet
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry, extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets. [T119553] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.281
- Poem Title:
- In what Manner Princes ought to be Taught. [Mallet.]
- Attribution:
- Mallet.
- Attributed To:
- David Mallet
- 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.281
- Poem Title:
- In what Manner Princes ought to be Taught. [Mallet.]
- Attribution:
- Mallet.
- Attributed To:
- David Mallet
- 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):
- p.281
- Poem Title:
- In what Manner Princes ought to be Taught. [Mallet.]
- Attribution:
- Mallet.
- Attributed To:
- David Mallet
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