Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks
- DMI number:
- 30882
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks
- Last Line:
- Bursts out resistless with a thundering tide
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Wit[sense]
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Criticism. Twickenham edition I: 239-326.
- First Line:
- Tis hard to say if greater want of skill
- Last Line:
- Not free from faults nor yet too vain to mend
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems for reading and repetition selected from the most celebrated British poets [ESTC T119516] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- Sense
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Criticism.
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