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Subject: SHADWELL, THOMAS (1642-1692)
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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)


MACFLECKNOE; OR, A SATIRE UPON THE TRUE-BLUE-PROTESTANT POET, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: All human things are subject to decay
Last Line: With double portion of his father's art.
Variant Title(s): The Laureate Of Dulness (shadwell);on Shadwell;the Primacy Of Dullness;shadwell;he Crowns Shadwell As Supreme Of Dullards;macflecknoe
Subject(s): Flecknoe, Richard (1600-1678); Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)


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)


POET SHADWELL'S CORONATION, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now empress fame had publisht the renown
Subject(s): Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)


THE SECOND SONG IN SIR BARNABY WHIGG, by THOMAS D'URFEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Farewell my lov'd sciencce, my former delight
Last Line: I divert all the town with my thrumming and thrashing.
Subject(s): Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692)


THE TRUE WIDOW: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heav'n save ye gallants, and this hopeful age
Last Line: Who needs will father what the parish got.
Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692); Theater & Theaters; Widows & Widowers; Dramatists; Stage Life