The life of fame is action understood
- DMI number:
- 14717
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The life of fame is action understood
- Last Line:
- And dies despised where the fame's neglected
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Fame and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Chloridia. Bevington (2012) VI.
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.265
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Chloridia
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
Poem Aliases
Jonson. Chloridia.
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