Order is heaven's first law and this confessed
- DMI number:
- 37182
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Order is heaven's first law and this confessed
- Last Line:
- One they must want which is to pass for good
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence, Reason, The happy man / contentment, and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Man Epistle IV. Twickenham edition III i.
- 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.117-118
- Poem Title:
- The Gifts of Fortune unequally distributed: Happiness does not consist in the superabundance of these, but in Health, Peace, and Competence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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.106-107
- Poem Title:
- The Gifts of Fortune unequally distributed: Happiness does not consist in the superabundance of these, but in Health, Peace, and Competence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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.106-107
- Poem Title:
- The Gifts of Fortune unequally distributed: Happiness does not consist in the superabundance of these, but in Health, Peace, and Competence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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.106-107
- Poem Title:
- The Gifts of Fortune unequally distributed: Happiness does not consist in the superabundance of these, but in Health, Peace, and Competence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Man. Epistle 4.
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