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Subject: LELY, SIR PETER (1618-1680)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 2.1, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While you, great patron of mankind! Sustain
Last Line: Befringe the rails of bedlam and sohoe.
Variant Title(s): To Augustus
Subject(s): Dramatists; Dryden, John (1631-1700); George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Immortality; Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Paintings And Painters; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spen


TO MY FRIEND MR. LELY, ON HIS PICTURE OF THE .. LADY ISABELLA THYNN, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature, and art are here at strife
Last Line: A painter, no creator art.
Subject(s): Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Paintings & Painters


TO MY WORTHY FRIEND MR. PETER LELY, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See! What a clouded majesty, and eyes
Last Line: None but my lely ever drew a mind.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Portraits