Ambition is the stamp impressed by heaven
- DMI number:
- 37441
- First Line:
- Ambition is the stamp impressed by heaven
- Last Line:
- Conducts the sun and regulates the spheres
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Drama, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Blank verse
- Themes:
- Ambition, Nature, Politics, Religion, and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Samuel Johnson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Excerpt from 'Irene' (1749): 44.
- 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):
- pp.295-296
- Poem Title:
- Ambition inseparable from Great Minds. [S. Johnson.]
- Attribution:
- S. Johnson.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- 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):
- pp.274-275
- Poem Title:
- Ambition inseparable from Great Minds. [S. Johnson.]
- Attribution:
- S. Johnson.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- 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):
- pp.274-275
- Poem Title:
- Ambition inseparable from Great Minds. [S. Johnson.]
- Attribution:
- S. Johnson.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
- 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):
- pp.274-275
- Poem Title:
- Ambition inseparable from Great Minds. [S. Johnson.]
- Attribution:
- S. Johnson.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Johnson
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