Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April 27 – Nicholas Amhurst (born 1697), English poet and political writer
- July 9 – John Oldmixon (born 1673), English historian, pamphleteer, poet and critic
- July 19 – William Somervile (born 1675), English poet
- date not known – David French (poet) (born 1700), English Colonial American
- François-Joseph de Beaupoil de Sainte-Aulaire (born 1643), French poet and army officer
Read more about this topic: 1742 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)