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
- 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:
- First Line:
- And as when heavy sleep has closed the sight
- Last Line:
- And on the tongue the faltering accents die
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- When heavy sleep has closed the sight
- Last Line:
- And on the tongue the faultering accents die
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- 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
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