Wit like beauty triumphs over the heart
- DMI number:
- 6020
- First Line:
- Wit like beauty triumphs over the heart
- Last Line:
- When more of nature's seen and less of art
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Beauty and Wit
- Author:
- Matthew Prior
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Wright and Spears I: 19-24 (Extract from Satire on the Modern Translators ('Since the united cunning of the stage').
- First Line:
- Since the united cunning of the stage
- Last Line:
- And praise what D'Urfey not translating writ
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- True wit like beauty triumphs over the heart
- Last Line:
- When more of nature's seen and less of art
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.363
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (M-Z) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.373
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
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