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Nought profits him to save abandoned life

DMI number:
6006
First Line:
Nought profits him to save abandoned life
Last Line:
When nature cannot work th'effect of art is void
Poem Genre / Form:
Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
Themes:
Illness, injury
Related People
Author:
John Dryden
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Dryden's Palamon and Arcite; Calif. VII (2000): 173.
Content/Publication
Title:
Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
Page No(s):
p.233
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Attributed To:
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