Aspiring souls to great attempts inclined
- DMI number:
- 7699
- First Line:
- Aspiring souls to great attempts inclined
- Last Line:
- In tunes compelled they of their fate complain
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Moral and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Fate / fortune / providence
- Author:
- Edmund Arwaker
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'Fable XXVIII. The Lion Disarmed' (The Moral). Select Fables (1708), III: 232-233.
- First Line:
- While a young lion just arrived at age
- Last Line:
- He's forced to stoop to what he does despise
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- Delights for the ingenious [P6193] [June 1711]
- Page No(s):
- p.215
- Poem Title:
- The Moral
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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