Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- December 5 – Phillis Wheatley, American poet, died in poverty in 1784 while working on a second book of poetry, which has now been lost (born 1753)
- Henry Alline (born 1748), American-born Canadian preacher and hymn-writer
- Le Quy Don, Vietnamese (born 1726), philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official
- Samuel Johnson (born 1709), English poet, author, critic
- Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan (born 1709), French poet
- Alexander Ross (poet)
Read more about this topic: 1784 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
“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)