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Subject: SETTLE, ELKANAH (1648-1724)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL: PART 2 (IN POEM BY NAHUM TATE), by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Next these, a troop of busy spirits press
Last Line: And for my foes may this their blessing be, %to talk like doeg and to write like thee
Subject(s): Great Britain - Popish Plot (1678-80); Pordage, Samuel (1633-1691); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724); Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)


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


OG AND DOES (THE WRITERS SHADWELL AND SETTLE), by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To make quick way I'll leap o'er heavy blocks
Subject(s): Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724); Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)


SECOND PROLOGUE AT COURT TO 'THE EMPRESS OF MOROCCO', BY LADY HOWARD, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wit has of late took up a trick t' appear
Last Line: For love will ever make the triumph yours.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Courts & Courtiers; Howard, Lady Betty (d. 1683); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724)


TIMON, A SATYR, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What timon! Does old age begin t' approach
Last Line: To drink bear glass, and hear the hectors roar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Boileau, Nicholas (1636-1711); Porter, George (1622-1683); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724); Women


TO THE AUTHOR OF A POEM ENTITLED SUCCESSION, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Begone, ye critics, and restrain your spite
Last Line: Since 'tis enough we find it so in you.
Subject(s): Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724)