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Subject: DENNIS, JOHN (1657-1734)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPIGRAM ON DENNIS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should d-- s print how once you robb'd your brother
Last Line: Secure in dullness, madness, want, and age.
Subject(s): Dennis, John (1657-1734)


ON BEING CHARGED WITH WRITING INCORRECTLY, by THE AMOROUS LADY [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm incorrect: the learned say
Last Line: "these mighty dull, these mighty wise"
Alternate Author Name(s): The Amorous Lady
Subject(s): "busby, Richard (1606-1695);dennis, John (1657-1734);women - Writers;


PROLOGUE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. DENNIS, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As when that hero, who in each campaign
Last Line: And be the critick's, briton's, old-man's friend.
Subject(s): Dennis, John (1657-1734); Plays & Playwrights