English Poets

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    The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
    —17th-century English proverb, pt. 1, quoted in Isaac d’Israeli, Curiosities of Literature (1834)

    He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
    John Dryden (1631–1700)