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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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1615-69, English poet and dramatist. His fame rests largely on two works: Cooper's Hill (1642), a topographical poem, combining descriptions of scenery with moral reflections, and The Sophy, a historical tragedy of the Turkish court, acted in 1641. He served the royalists during the Puritan revolution and as a result was made surveyor general of the royal works. He was knighted in 1661.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/D/Denham-S1.asp
He was born at Dublin in 1615; the only son of Sir John Denham, of Little Horsely in Essex ....more..
http://www.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/d...
159 My eye, descending from the hill, surveys
160Where Thames amongst the wanton valleys strays;
161Thames, the most lov'd of all the Ocean's sons
162By his old sire, to his embraces runs,
163Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea,
164Like mortal life to meet eternity.
165Though with those streams he no resemblance hold
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A passage from one of his poems:
From "Directions to a Painter Concerning the Dutch War," 1667 -- the passage is about Charles Berkeley.
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/1686/#c9396