Place me ye powers in some obscure retreat
- DMI number:
- 33660
- First Line:
- Place me ye powers in some obscure retreat
- Last Line:
- Worse is an evil fame much worse than none
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Philosophic poetry, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fame, Retirement, and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- George Granville
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract 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.
- First Line:
- At length the gods propitious to our prayers
- Last Line:
- Worse is an evil fame much worse than none
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of thoughts, moral and divine, upon various subjects, in prose and verse [T140912] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.171-172
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lord Landsdown
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
- Title:
- A collection of thoughts, moral and divine, upon various subjects, in prose and verse [T228009] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- ppp.171-172
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lord Landsdown
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
- Title:
- Thoughts Moral and Divine [N26098]
- Page No(s):
- pp.136-137
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Lord Lansdown
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
- Title:
- Thoughts Moral and Divine [T136739] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.244
- Poem Title:
- Mediocrity.
- Attribution:
- Lord Lansdown
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
- Title:
- Thoughts Moral and Divine [T136740] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.148
- Poem Title:
- Mediocrity.
- Attribution:
- Lord Lansdown
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
- Title:
- Thoughts Moral and Divine [T6265] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.182
- Poem Title:
- Mediocrity.
- Attribution:
- Lord Lansdown
- Attributed To:
- George Granville
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