Since all earth's pleasures are so short and small
- DMI number:
- 17176
- First Line:
- Since all earth's pleasures are so short and small
- Last Line:
- The way to enjoy them is to abjure them all
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Verse-drama
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- George Chapman
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Holaday (1987): 156-157 (extract from 'Bussy D'Ambois', Act 5, Scene 1).
- 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.25
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Chapman's Bussy D'ambois
- Attributed To:
- George Chapman
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