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Poor little pretty fluttering thing

DMI number:
1736
First Line:
Poor little pretty fluttering thing
Last Line:
Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st not what
Poem Genre / Form:
Quatrain abab
Themes:
Death
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Translated from:
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Translated from:
Hadrian
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Author:
Matthew Prior
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Wright and Spears (1971) I: 196.
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Title:
A Collection of Poems, From the Best Authors: Adapted to every age, but peculiarly designed to form the Taste of Youth. [T78176] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
p.230
Poem Title:
XXXI. Adriani Moreientis, ad Animam fuam. [in Table of Contents: Dying Adrian's Address to His Soul.]
Attribution:
Translated by Fontenelle and Prior. [Contents page]
Attributed To:
Matthew Prior
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Title:
A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixed, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [Vol. I] [ESTC T130692]
Page No(s):
CDXXXVI.
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The Emperor Adrian's Verses, to his Soul, imitated.
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Title:
A collection of epigrams. To which is prefix’d, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [ESTC T41]
Page No(s):
CDXXXI.
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The Emperor Adrian's Death bed Verses, to his Soul, imitated.
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Title:
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The Emperor Adrian's Verses to his Soul, imitated.
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