Metaphysical poets still young, introducing into it a string of Metaphysical conceits in the lines beginning “Most souls, ‘tis true, but peep out once an age” which in part echo a passage from Donne's “Second Anniversary”. By the time Pope wrote this, the vogue for the Metaphysical style was over and a new orthodoxy had taken its place, of which the rewriting of Donne's satires was one expression. Nevertheless, Johnson's dismissal of the ‘school’ was still in the future and at the start of the 18th century allusions to their work struck an answering chord in readers. During the course of the
The bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man to Palestine, they famously reported back that the bride 'was beautiful but married to another man.' But the implication of this wry remark — that the Zionists should attempt to marry someone else — was disregarded." The phrase has also been cited as an 1890s fact-finding message in the 2008 BBC Two documentary "The Birth of Israel", produced by Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen, and by P. J. O'Rourke, Adam LeBor, and Mustapha Marrouchi. The titles of the books "Married to Another Man" (2007) by Ghada Karmi and (in Swedish) "Bruden är vacker men har redan en man" by Ingmar