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Subject: FOX, CHARLES JAMES (1749-1806)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GEORGE AND FOX, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good charly fox, your counsel I implore
Last Line: And france, triumphant, stems the subject main.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Fox, Charles James (1749-1806); George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Navy - France; Navy - Great Britain; Navy - Spain; French Navy; English Navy; Spanish Navy


EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES JAMES FOX, SELECTION, by THOMAS MAURICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: How cursed that country, how severe its doom
Last Line: And show mankind a righteous ruler reigns.
Subject(s): Fox, Charles James (1749-1806)


LINES COMPOSED AT GRASMERE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loud is the vale! The voice is up
Last Line: Then wherefore should we mourn?
Subject(s): Fox, Charles James (1749-1806)


ON THE DEATH OF MR. FOX, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh factious viper! Whose envemom'd tooth
Last Line: For pitt, and pitt alone, has dared to ask.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Fox, Charles James (1749-1806)


SKETCH, INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HON. C.J. FOX, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How wisdom and folly meet, mix and unite
Last Line: It is not, out-do him -- the task is, out-thieve him!
Subject(s): Fox, Charles James (1749-1806)