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Subject: SEDLEY, SIR CHARLES (1639-1701)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AGREEMENT WITH SIR CHARLES SEDLEY, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Accommodating love with something still
Last Line: And timbre – somewhat louder – of a man
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)


AN ALLUSION TO HORACE, THE TENTH SATYR OF THE FIRST BOOK, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, sir, 'tis granted I said dryden's rhymes
Last Line: Approve my sense: I count their censure fame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Busby, Richard (1606-1695); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Etherege, Sir George (1635-1692); Godolphin, Sidney (1610-1643); Horace (65-8 B.c.); Otway, Thomas (1652-1685); Scroope, Sir Carr (d. 1680); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724


TIMON, A SATYR, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What timon! Does old age begin t' approach
Last Line: To drink bear glass, and hear the hectors roar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Boileau, Nicholas (1636-1711); Porter, George (1622-1683); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724); Women