With such discourse they entertain the day
- DMI number:
- 11629
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- With such discourse they entertain the day
- Last Line:
- Expect and meet them at the palace gate
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, Narrative verse, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Entertainments / pastimes, Mythology, and Sleep
- Author:
- Nahum Tate
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- ODNB entry: 'Tate pursued his interest in translation with versions from book 7 of Ovid's Metamorphoses'. Hopkins, "Dryden and the Garth-Tonson Metamorphoses": '[Tonson] may also have inherited the manuscripts of some of Nahum Tate's translations from the Metamorphoses on that poet's death in 1715'. (The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 153 (Feb., 1988), 64-74, 65.)
- Translated from:
- Ovid
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- A dreadful plague from angry Juno came
- Last Line:
- To fill your sails and favour your intent
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [N41874] [vol.1] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.228
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Continu'd by Mr. Tate
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T108889]
- Page No(s):
- p.245
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Continu'd by Mr. Tate
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T128848, Vol.2]
- Page No(s):
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Continu'd by Mr. Tate
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T138611]
- Page No(s):
- p.245
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Continu'd by Mr. Tate
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T169738] [vol.2]
- Page No(s):
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Continu'd by Mr. Tate.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T175634] [vol.2] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Continu'd by Mr. Tate
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T99153] [Vol.2]
- Page No(s):
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Continu'd by Mr. Tate.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books, translated by the most eminent hands [T99262, Vol 2]
- Page No(s):
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Continu'd by Mr. Tate.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
Poem Aliases
Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book VII.
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