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Subject: HARLEY, EDWARD. 2D EARL OF OXFORD
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 3. TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who shall decide, when doctors disagree
Last Line: And sad sir balaam curses god and dies.
Variant Title(s): An Epistle To Allen Lord Bathurst: Of The Use Of Riches
Subject(s): Bathurst, Allen, 1st Earl (1684-1775); Chartres, Francis (1675-1732); Colepepper, Sir William (1668-1740); Coningsby, Thomas, Lord (1656-1729); Crime & Criminals; Cutler, Sir John (1608-1693); Harley, Edward. 2d Earl Of Oxford; Heathcote, Sir Gilbert (16


THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES; THE 10TH SATIRE OF JUVENAL, IMITATED, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let observation with extensive view
Last Line: And makes the happiness she does not find.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr.
Subject(s): Austria; Charles Vii, Holy Roman Emperor; Charles Xii, King Of Sweden (1682-1718); Courage; Freedom; Harley, Edward. 2d Earl Of Oxford; Hyde, Edward. 1st Earl Of Clarendon; Laud, William. Archbiship Of Canterbury; Lydiat, Thomas (1572-1646); Pride; Sedle


TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF OXFORD, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wesley, if wesley 'tis they mean
Last Line: The lord of oxford knows.
Subject(s): Harley, Edward. 2d Earl Of Oxford