No government can ever be safe that's founded
- DMI number:
- 37442
- First Line:
- No government can ever be safe that's founded
- Last Line:
- That he's the greatest slave whom none but slaves obey
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Blank verse
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence, Liberty, Politics, The monarchy (heads of state), and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Joseph Trapp
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 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.296
- Poem Title:
- The Unsteadiness of an arbitrary Government, and the Misery of a despotic Prince. [Trap.]
- Attribution:
- Trap.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Trapp
- 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.275
- Poem Title:
- The Unsteadiness of an arbitrary Government, and the Misery of a despotic Prince. [Trap.]
- Attribution:
- Trap.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Trapp
- 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.275
- Poem Title:
- The Unsteadiness of an arbitrary Government, and the Misery of a despotic Prince. [Trapp.]
- Attribution:
- Trapp.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Trapp
- 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.275
- Poem Title:
- The Unsteadiness of an arbitrary Government, and the Misery of a despotic Prince. [Trapp.]
- Attribution:
- Trapp.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Trapp
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