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The coffin of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, in its vault in Spelsbury church, Oxfordshire The coffin plate removed from Rochester's coffin Death. By the age of 33, Rochester was dying from what is usually described as the effects of tertiary syphilis, gonorrohea, or other venereal diseases, combined with the effects of alcoholism.
4 de abr. de 2024 · April 1, 1647, Ditchley Manor House, Oxfordshire, Eng. Died: July 26, 1680, Woodstock, Eng. (aged 33) Notable Works: “Satyr Against Mankind” Movement / Style: Court Wit.
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11 de abr. de 2018 · Propagandists for piety claimed that the reason for Rochester’s death at the age of 33 was “more than clear,” brought about by “alcohol, abuse, and syphilis.” Whether or not Rochester’s death-bed rejection of atheism and conversion to Catholicism happened (as his detractors alleged), his work merits consideration as more than cautionary tale or titillating filth.
14 de oct. de 2019 · After Death nothing is, and nothing Death John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ‘ The latter end of the Chorus of the Second Act of Seneca’s Troas, translated ’ (c.1680) The utmost lymitt of a Gaspe of Breath.
Although Rochester had maintained a rigid skepticism throughout his life, these conversations, with the knowledge of imminent death, triggered a sensational repentance.
John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester and Baron of Adderbury in England, Viscount Athlone in Ireland, infamous in his time for his life and works and admired for his deathbed performance, was the cynosure of the libertine wits of Restoration England.
The entity of Nothing fears nothing (because it has no hopes, no fears), and therefore cannot fear death, but Nothing is also uniquely equipped to face death without fear, since if there is no Heaven or Hell, death is simply a return to the state of nonexistence that “nothing” has denoted all along.
