I have heard it said, by the way, that Donne's intolerable defect of ear grew out of his own baptismal name, when harnessed to his own surname -- John Donne. No man, it was said, who had listened to ...
Death of anyone diminishes us, we say with apologies to the verse virtuoso, John Donne, but the demise of good people diminishes us even more ... He was everyone’s friend. Welgama harboured no grudge ...
But there is a finite limit to even advanced medical science and life. Poets and philosophers, such as the Teacher in Ecclesiastes, the apostle Paul, John Donne (“no man is an island”), and Tennyson ...
Nor the obligation on policy-makers to fashion measures to mitigate it. Remember the celebrated sixteenth century poet John Donne? "No man is an island, entire of itself". Nor has South Africa an ...