The pencil's glowing lines the painter's care
- DMI number:
- 24332
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The pencil's glowing lines the painter's care
- Last Line:
- The spiry flames which shoot through rolling smoke
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase and Couplet
- Themes:
- God, Heaven, Religion[Resurrection], and Art / painting
- Translated from:
- Joseph Addison
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) IX: 541-542.
- Author:
- Nicholas Amhurst
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- See The Works ed. Hurd vol. 6 (London, 1856): 573. Variant of A Poem on the Resurrection, 3rd edn (1718, ESTC T171535). ESTC notes 'The Latin text by Addison is followed by an English translation attributed to Nicholas Amhurst.'
- First Line:
- The pencil's glowing lines and vast command
- Last Line:
- Till the piece sees the last great day it paints
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Chester Miscellany [T166017]
- Page No(s):
- pp.220-223
- Poem Title:
- A Version of Mr. Addison's Latin Poem, entituled, The Resurrection; painted above the Altar in Magdalen-College Chapel, Oxon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Addison. Resurrectio.
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