Philosophy consists not
- DMI number:
- 37459
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Philosophy consists not
- Last Line:
- To plague unhappy man and ruin nations
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Drama, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Blank verse
- Themes:
- Hell, Philosophical enquiry, Politics, Social order, and The monarchy (heads of state)
- Author:
- James Thomson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Coriolanus Act 4 Scene 2 (1749: T952).
- 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):
- p.311
- Poem Title:
- In what Philosophy really consists. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- 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):
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- In what Philosophy really consists. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- 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):
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- In what Philosophy really consists. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
- 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):
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- In what Philosophy really consists. [Thomson.]
- Attribution:
- Thomson.
- Attributed To:
- James Thomson
Poem Aliases
Thomson. Coriolanus.
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