What's soon obtained we nauseously receive
- DMI number:
- 9679
- First Line:
- What's soon obtained we nauseously receive
- Last Line:
- And absent pleasures only do admire
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Philosophic poetry, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fashion[Taste], Virtue / vice[Vanity / Fickleness], Advice / moral precepts, and The happy man / contentment[Contentment / Discontent]
- Translated from:
- Petronius Arbiter
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- William Burnaby
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- See EEBO: William Burnaby, The satyr of Titus Petronius Arbiter, a Roman knight. With its fragments, recover'd at Belgrade. Made English by Mr. Burnaby of the Middle-Temple, and another hand (1694)
- Title:
- The works of Petronius Arbiter translated by several hands [T17788]
- Page No(s):
- p.264
- Poem Title:
- Upon the Vanity of our Taste, beginning, Nolo quod Cupio, &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The works of Petronius Arbiter translated by several hands [T17789]
- Page No(s):
- p.264
- Poem Title:
- Upon the Vanity of our Taste, beginning, Nolo quod Cupio, &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The works of T. Petronius Arbiter in prose and verse [T121188]
- Page No(s):
- p.264
- Poem Title:
- Upon the Vanity of our Taste; beginning, Nolo quod Cupio, &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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