Behold if fortune or a mistress frowns
- DMI number:
- 22410
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Behold if fortune or a mistress frowns
- Last Line:
- Charles to the covenent Philip to the field
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence and Politics[Charles V Philip II]
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Moral Essays: Epistle I, To Cobham. Twickenham edition III ii.
- First Line:
- A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn
- Last Line:
- More wise more learned more just more everything
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- And you brave Cobham to the latest breath
- Last Line:
- Oh save my country heaven shall be your last
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- I give and devise old Euclio said
- Last Line:
- Not that I cannot part with that and died
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat
- Last Line:
- His pride in reasoning not in acting lies
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Yes you despise the man to books confined
- Last Line:
- You hold him no philosopher at all
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope, esq. [ESTC T88302]
- Page No(s):
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Moral Essays. Epistle I. To Cobham.
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