Duty and not ambition is her aim
- DMI number:
- 9610
- First Line:
- Duty and not ambition is her aim
- Last Line:
- The glorious pleasures of obedience
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Composite poem, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Characters, Virtue / vice, and Women / the female character
- Author:
- Katherine Philips
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Partially an extract w. variants from Happyness ('Nature courts happiness although it be') Thomas (1990) I: 188-90.
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts [T61602]
- Page No(s):
- p.188
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. --------
- Attribution:
- Characters pick'd out of Mrs. Phillips's Poems, apply'd to several Persons
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts. [T61568]
- Page No(s):
- p.188
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. --------
- Attribution:
- Characters pick'd out of Mrs. Phillips's Poems, apply'd to several Persons
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- Title:
- The agreeable variety: being a miscellaneous collection in prose and verse from the works of the most celebrated authors [T61569]
- Page No(s):
- p.188
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. --------
- Attribution:
- Characters pick'd out of Mrs. Phillips's Poems, apply'd to several Persons
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
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