A scanty fortune clips the wings of fame
- DMI number:
- 29813
- First Line:
- A scanty fortune clips the wings of fame
- Last Line:
- And wit in rags is turned to ridicule
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Composite poem, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Fame
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Includes lines from 'Third Satire of Juvenal'; Calif. IV (1974): 127.
- Author:
- Thomas Parnell
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Includes lines from Epigram ('The greatest Gifts that Nature does bestow'). Rawson and Lock (1989): 329-330; 'should perhaps be regarded as to some extent doubtfully TP's' (596).
- First Line:
- Grieved though I am an ancient friend to lose
- Last Line:
- And add new venom when you write of Rome
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The greatest gifts that nature does bestow
- Last Line:
- It dies in rags and scarce deserves a name
- 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):
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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