Thus some by temperance taught approaching slow
- DMI number:
- 5621
- First Line:
- Thus some by temperance taught approaching slow
- Last Line:
- And steal themselves from life and melt away
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Age and Death
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Act 5 Scene 1 of Dryden's The State of Innocence; Calif. XII (1995): 144-5 [Some few, by temprance]
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.389
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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