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A bard on whom Phoebus his spirit bestowed

DMI number:
11477
First Line:
A bard on whom Phoebus his spirit bestowed
Last Line:
Are always fobbed off with sheer wit and sheer wine
Poem Genre / Form:
Comic verse and Couplet
Themes:
Food and drink, God, Poetry / literature / writing, and Wit
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Author:
Patrick Delany
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Confident (50%)
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Content/Publication
Title:
A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixed, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [Vol. I] [ESTC T130692]
Page No(s):
CCCLV.
Poem Title:
Upon the same Subject.
Attribution:
By the same Hand. [i.e. Delany]
Attributed To:
Patrick Delany
Title:
A collection of epigrams. To which is prefix’d, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [ESTC T41]
Page No(s):
CCCLIII.
Poem Title:
Upon the same Subject.
Attribution:
By the same Hand. [i.e. Delany]
Attributed To:
Patrick Delany
Title:
Miscellaneous poems, original and translated, by several hands. [ESTC T125249]
Page No(s):
p.138-139
Poem Title:
Another,
Attribution:
By the same Hand. [i.e. Delany]
Attributed To:
Patrick Delany