Template:RQ:Poems and Translations

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from the work Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1st edition, 1712) by Alexander Pope and other authors. It may be used to create a link to an online version of the work (contents) at Google Books.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |author= and |authorlink= – if the template does not automatically indicate the name of the author for a title, use |author= to specify the author's name, and |authorlink= the name of an English Wikipedia article about the author.
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• |canto= – if quoting from The Rape of the Lock, use this parameter to specify the canto number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals, either |canto=I or |canto=II. This parameter may be omitted if the page number is specified.
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• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
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• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Poems and Translations|title=Thebais|page=40|passage=Goddeſs of Shades, beneath whoſe gloomy Reign / Yon ſpangled Arch glows with the ſtarry Train, / Who doſt the Cares of Heav'n and Earth allay, / Till Nature '''quicken'd''' by th'Inſpiring Ray, / Wakes to new Vigor with the riſing Day.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Poems and Translations|Thebais|40|Goddeſs of Shades, beneath whoſe gloomy Reign / Yon ſpangled Arch glows with the ſtarry Train, / Who doſt the Cares of Heav'n and Earth allay, / Till Nature '''quicken'd''' by th'Inſpiring Ray, / Wakes to new Vigor with the riſing Day.}}
• Result:
  • 1712 May, Pope, transl., “The First Book of Statius his Thebais”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. , London: Bernard Lintott , →OCLC, page 40:

    Goddeſs of Shades, beneath whoſe gloomy Reign / Yon ſpangled Arch glows with the ſtarry Train, / Who doſt the Cares of Heav'n and Earth allay, / Till Nature quicken'd by th'Inſpiring Ray, / Wakes to new Vigor with the riſing Day.