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Subject: CIBBER, COLLEY (1671-1757)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY CIBBER'S VERSES IN PRAISE OF NASH: 1, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O nash! More blest in ev'ry other thing
Last Line: And all mankind, but cibber, sing thy praise.
Subject(s): "cibber, Colley (1671-1757); Nash, Richard (""beau"") (1674-1762);


EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY CIBBER'S VERSES IN PRAISE OF NASH: 2, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cibber! Write all thy verses upon glasses
Last Line: The only way to save 'em from our a--s.
Subject(s): Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)


EPIGRAM ON CIBBER'S DECLARATION THAT HE WILL HAVE LAST WORD, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quoth cibber to pope, tho' in verse you foreclose
Last Line: For know, the last word is the word that lasts longest.
Subject(s): Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)


EPIGRAM ON GEORGE II AND COLLEY CIBBER, ESQ, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Augustus still survives in maro's strain
Last Line: For nature formed the poet for the king.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr.
Subject(s): Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760)


ODE HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO THE POET LAUREATE, SELECTION, by STEPHEN DUCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behold in ev'ry face imperial grace shine
Last Line: Something soft for thought design'd.
Subject(s): Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)