Oft wisdom is to sloth too great a slave
- DMI number:
- 9563
- First Line:
- Oft wisdom is to sloth too great a slave
- Last Line:
- None are so busy as the fool and knave
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Dryden's The Medal. Calif. II (1972): 48 [But Wisedom is to Sloath too great a Slave]
- First Line:
- Thus wisdom is to sloth too great a slave
- Last Line:
- None are so busy as the fool and knave
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts [T61602]
- Page No(s):
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts. [T61568]
- Page No(s):
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
- Title:
- The agreeable variety: being a miscellaneous collection in prose and verse from the works of the most celebrated authors [T61569]
- Page No(s):
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Gold
- Attributed To:
- Robert Gould
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