Tis not enough no harshness gives offence
- DMI number:
- 40443
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Tis not enough no harshness gives offence
- Last Line:
- Flies over the unbending corn and skims along the main
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Criticism. Twickenham edition I.
- First Line:
- Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
- Last Line:
- Not free from faults nor yet too vain to mend
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows
- Last Line:
- Flies over the unbending corn and skims along the main
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The art of poetry made easy, [...]: being the seventh volume of the Circle of the sciences [T120153]
- Page No(s):
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- the last-cited excellent Poet [i.e. 'Mr. Pope']
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Criticism.
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