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And as when heavy sleep has closed the sight

DMI number:
28601
First Line:
And as when heavy sleep has closed the sight
Last Line:
The fury flew athwart and made the endeavour void
Poem Genre / Form:
Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Epic simile
Themes:
Sleep
Related People
Author:
John Dryden
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Dryden's Aenied, Book 12. Calif. VI (1988): 804.
Translated from:
Virgil
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
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Comments:
First Line:
When heavy sleep has closed the sight
Last Line:
And on the tongue the faultering accents die
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Variant Of
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Content/Publication
Title:
The polite companion: containing essays illustrated with passages from the poets, orators [T202654] [Vol.2]
Page No(s):
pp.307-308
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Virg. Aen. XII. [p.307]
Attributed To:
Not attributed