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Subject: TONSON, JACOB (1656-1736)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FAREWELL TO LONDON IN THE YEAR 1715, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear, damn'd distracting town, farewell!
Last Line: And so may starve with me.
Subject(s): London; Montagu, Charles. 1st Earl Of Halifax; Tonson, Jacob (1656-1736)


ODES III, 9. THE RECONCILEMENT BETWEEN JACOB TONSON AND MR. CONGREVE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While at my house in fleet-street once you lay
Last Line: And live and die, dear cob, with only you
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Congreve, William (1670-1729); Tonson, Jacob (1656-1736)