The Romans as historians all allow
- DMI number:
- 32759
- First Line:
- The Romans as historians all allow
- Last Line:
- Retired to be a nobleman again
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epilogue and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Agriculture, Ancient history, Retirement, and Rural life
- Author:
- Samuel Johnson
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- The essay 'On Agriculture' including this epilogue was published in The Universal Visiter in Feb 1756; its attribution to Johnson is unlikely - Boswell claimed that J wrote its sequel, but not this 'very inferiour' essay. See Life, I: 306, and Botting, MP 36: e, (1939), 293-300 for details. Neither Nichol Smith or Fleeman includes the lines, even amongst the mistaken attributions.
- Title:
- Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces [2nd ed] [vol 2] [T101913] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces [Dublin] [vol 2] [N11614] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.144
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces [vol 2] [T101912] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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