Pride by presumption bred when at a height
- DMI number:
- 17317
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Pride by presumption bred when at a height
- Last Line:
- The loathsome offspring of a hated sire
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Allegory
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Virtue / vice[Pride - Presumption - Cruelty]
- Author:
- William Alexander
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from the Alexandraean Tragedy Act 4 Scene 1. Stirling (1637).
- Title:
- [vol. 3] The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [vol III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy
- Attributed To:
- William Alexander
Poem Aliases
Stirling. Alexandraean Tragedy.
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