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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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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.
Lord Rochester died in 1658 and was succeeded by his son John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. He was a poet, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of satirical and bawdy poetry. He married the heiress Elizabeth Malet. He was succeeded on his death in 1680 by his only son, the third Earl.
Although Rochester had maintained a rigid skepticism throughout his life, these conversations, with the knowledge of imminent death, triggered a sensational repentance.
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.
20 de sept. de 2012 · John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was in his own time and remains to this day the most notorious of the poets and dramatists who wrote during Charles II’s reign.
