The Lydian prince is blamed for wealth alone
- DMI number:
- 13486
- First Line:
- The Lydian prince is blamed for wealth alone
- Last Line:
- Such crowds are envious and so few are kings
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence, High society / the court, and Money / wealth
- Author:
- Samuel Wesley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Wesley (1743): 126 ('On the foregoing Epigram', in 'Poems on Several Occasions').
- First Line:
- On Stygian banks Diogenes the wise
- Last Line:
- Thou Croesus rich on earth hast nothing here
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixed, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [Vol. I] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- CCCLXXVI.
- Poem Title:
- On the foregoing.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixd, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [ESTC T41]
- Page No(s):
- CCCLXXIII.
- Poem Title:
- On the foregoing.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of moral and sacred poems from the most celebrated English authors [Volume II] [T16524] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.176
- Poem Title:
- On the foregoing Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellaneous poems, by several hands [T117257]
- Page No(s):
- p.283
- Poem Title:
- On the foregoing Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86180]
- Page No(s):
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- Croesus and Diogenes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86181] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- Croesus and Diogenes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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