When you alone so many and so great
- DMI number:
- 42211
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- When you alone so many and so great
- Last Line:
- In chandlers' shops at best but plums and spice
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Couplet, Satire, and Epistle
- Themes:
- Critics / criticism, Glories of past ages, Gratitude, Manners, Poetry / literature / writing, and The monarchy (heads of state)[Emperor Augustus.]
- Translated from:
- Horace
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Sir William Petty
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Harold F. Brooks, 'Contributors to Brome's Horace', Notes and Queries, 174 (1938), 200-1 (p. 200).
- Title:
- The poems of Horace [ESTC R712]
- Page No(s):
- pp.372-382
- Poem Title:
- Epistle I. ... To Augustus. A Discourse of Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By Sir W. P.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Petty
Poem Aliases
Horace. Epistles. Book 2 Epistle 1.
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