Donne

Speech parts

1. Donne - Noun

2. Donne - Proper noun

Meaning

English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)

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Examples

And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore. Donna Tartt

That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish. Ben Jonson

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND. Kenneth Williams

The hand that gives is above the hand that takes. (La main qui donne est au-dessus de celle qui reçoit.) Napoleon Bonaparte

I know what wages beauty gives, How hard a life her servant lives, Yet praise the winters gone: There is not a fool can call me friend, And I may dine at journey's end With Landor and with Donne. William Butler Yeats

You should read in your own field only when you're young. When I was 8, 10, 12, 16, 25, I read science fiction. But then I went on to Alexander Pope and John Donne and Moliere to mix it up. Ray Bradbury

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