The learned teach but what they teach not do
- DMI number:
- 16054
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The learned teach but what they teach not do
- Last Line:
- And standing still themselves make others go
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Education
- Author:
- Sir John Denham
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Of Prudence. Chalmers (1810): 254-257.
- Title:
- 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 II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.158
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denham
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
Poem Aliases
Denham. Of Prudence.
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