Metaphysical poets was established, however, it was occasionally adopted by other and especially younger poets to fit appropriate circumstances. In the chapter on Abraham Cowley in his "Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets" (1779–81), Samuel Johnson refers to the beginning of the seventeenth century in which there "appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets". This does not necessarily imply that he intended "metaphysical" to be used in its true sense, in that he was probably referring to a witticism of John Dryden, who said of John Donne: He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires,
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