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Subject: VANBRUGH, SIR JOHN (1664-1726)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPITAPH - 1726 ON SIR JOHN VANBRUGH, by ABEL EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Under this stone, reader, survey
Last Line: Laid many heavy loads on thee!
Subject(s): Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)


FOR SIR JOHN VANBRUGH, ARCHITECT. AN EPIGRAMMICAL EPITAPH, by ABEL EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lie heavy on him, earth! For he
Last Line: Laid many heavy loads on thee!
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)


HISTORY OF VANBRUGH'S HOUSE, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When mother clud had rose from play
Last Line: A mousetrap-man chief engineer
Subject(s): Houses; Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)


VANBRUGH'S HOUSE; BUILT FROM THE RUINS OF WHITEHALL, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In times of old, when time was young
Last Line: They from its ruins build their own.'
Subject(s): Houses; Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)