Others lext luxury and pomp allure
- DMI number:
- 28302
- First Line:
- Others lext luxury and pomp allure
- Last Line:
- Worse is an evil fame much worse than none
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Retirement
- Author:
- George Granville
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from An imitation of the second chorus in the second act of Seneca's Thyestus ('When will the gods propitious to our prayers'). Chalmers (1810) XI: 13-14.
- Translated from:
- Seneca
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- The polite companion: containing essays illustrated with passages from the poets, orators [T202654] [Vol.2]
- Page No(s):
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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