When haughty guilt exults with impious joy
- DMI number:
- 29841
- First Line:
- When haughty guilt exults with impious joy
- Last Line:
- But heaven shall guide it to the guilty heart
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Drama and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts[guilt]
- Author:
- Samuel Johnson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- last four lines of Johnson's 'Irene' (1749): 86.
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- Guilt
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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