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Subject: HOBBES, THOMAS (1588-1679)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ESCHATOLOGY: THOMAS HOBBES, 1588-1679, by ERIC CHARLES LEMAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down the hall, the nobility speculates
Last Line: Then place his mouth over one end, then blow
Subject(s): Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)


IN ST. LEONARD'S CHURCH, FOR THE TWO WIVES OF THOMAS HOBBES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Susannah late a love lillye
Last Line: Yet lillye's roots shall spring again, %and pearl repay'd with christ to reign
Subject(s): Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)


ON MR. HOBBES, AND HIS WRITINGS, by JOHN SHEFFIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such is the mode of these censorious days
Last Line: Such stock of wit unable to supply, %to spare herself, was glad to let him die
Alternate Author Name(s): Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of
Subject(s): Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)


PINDARIC ODE: TO MR. HOBS, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vast bodies of philosophy
Last Line: And that which never is to dye, for ever must be young.
Subject(s): Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679); Pindar (522-440 B.c.)


THE MODERN TIPPLING PHILOSOPHERS, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Father hodge had his pipe and his dram
Last Line: If I blame, be assured I am tipsy.
Subject(s): Bacon, Roger (1214-1292); Drinks & Drinking; Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679); Philosophy & Philosophers; Science; Wine; Scientists