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Subject: ETHEREGE, SIR GEORGE (1635-1692)
Matches Found: 3

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LETTER TO SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To you who live in chill degree
Last Line: Has writ without a ten years warning.
Subject(s): Etherege, Sir George (1635-1692); Letters; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists


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


THE MAN OF MODE, OR SIR FOPLING FLUTTER: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most modern wits such monstrous fools have shown
Last Line: For no one fool is hunted from the herd.
Subject(s): Etherege, Sir George (1635-1692); Fools; Idiots