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Subject: KNILLER, GOTTFRIED
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPITAPH ON SIR GODFREY KNELLER IN WESTMINSTER-ABBY 1723, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kneller, by heav'n, and not by a master, taught
Last Line: Her works; and dying, fears herself may die.
Subject(s): Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Westminster Abbey; Kniller, Gottfried


TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I beheld the fairest of her kind
Last Line: And give more beauties, than he takes away.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Speech Disorders; Voices; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Kniller, Gottfried; Stuttering; Muteness


TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, ON HIS PAINTING FOR ME THE STATUES.., by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What god, what genius, did the pencil move
Last Line: And strong as hercules.
Variant Title(s): On Drawings Of The Statues Of Apollo, Venus, And Hercules
Subject(s): Friendship; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Kniller, Gottfried


VERSES UNDER A PORTRAIT OF THOMAS BRITTON, A COAL MERCHANT, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though doomed to small-coal, yet to arts applied
Last Line: Had kneller painted, and had vertue graved.
Variant Title(s): Lines
Subject(s): Britton, Thomas (1644-1714); Coal Mines & Miners; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Music & Musicians; Vertue, George (1684-1756); Kniller, Gottfried