To His Coy Mistress lie / Deserts of vast eternity. Andy Marvell, What a Marvel'. The line "A fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace" appears in Stephen King's novel "Pet Sematary". The line "My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow" is quoted by William S. Burroughs in the last entry of (July 29, 1997). To His Coy Mistress "To His Coy Mistress" is a metaphysical poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during or just before the English Interregnum (1649–60). It was published posthumously in 1681. This poem is
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets English poetical biography”. By including them also there is an implied continuity between the volumes to which Johnson contributed and Chalmers’ "work professing to be a Body of the Standard English Poets". Matthew Arnold, in his "Six Chief Lives from Johnson's "Lives of the Poets"" (1878), considered the Lives of Milton, Dryden, Pope, Addison, Swift, and Gray as "points which stand as so many natural centres, and by returning to which we can always find our way again" and also as a model for Arnold's "ideal of liberal education", representing "a crucial century and a half in English literature". For