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Subject: BUTLER, SAMUEL (1612-1680)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ENGLISH LIBERAL, by GEOFFREY TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think' thought samuel butler
Last Line: What could be subtler %then the thought of sam butler?
Subject(s): Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)


EPISTLES BETWEEN AND ANDREW GRAY AND ROBERT FERGUSSON: TO ANDREW GRAY, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nae langer bygane, than the streen
Last Line: And crack and sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Cabbage; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


IN RE ALFRED EMERY CATHIE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In 1887, alfred cathie / became the private clerk of samuel butler
Last Line: "yes, there's tobacco in it -- you may go!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Office Employees; Clerks


ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT [IN WESTMINSTER], by SAMUEL WESLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While butler, needy wretch, was yet alive
Last Line: He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone.
Variant Title(s): On The Setting-up Of Butler's Monument In Westminster Abbey
Subject(s): Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Westminster Abbey


WRITTEN IN BUTLER'S SERMONS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Affections, instincts, principles, and powers
Last Line: In cloudy circles, to eternity.
Subject(s): Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)