Much will always wanting be

DMI number:

6026

First Line:

Much will always wanting be

Last Line:

With sparing hand enough but just enough has given

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work and Ode

Themes:

The happy man / contentment

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Author:

Abraham Cowley

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from Cowley's 'Paraphrase on an Ode in Horace's Third Book' ('A tower of brass, one would have said'), Waller (1906): 442.

Translated from:

Horace

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

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Last Line:

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First Line:

Much will always wanting be

Last Line:

With sparing hand but just enough has given

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Content/Publication

Title:

Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]

Page No(s):

p.523

Poem Title:

[no title]

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