One of his works begins by imagining an admiral who watches from an adjacent hill as a battle transpires between "two rival fleets."  Another of his works notes that the "flying hours are gone" like "transitory dreams given o'er / Whose images are kept in store / By memory alone."  He derided works like Simon Patrick's The Parable of the Pilgrim an
One of his works begins by imagining an admiral who watches from an adjacent hill as a battle transpires between "two rival fleets."  Another of his works notes that the "flying hours are gone" like "transitory dreams given o'er / Whose images are kept in store / By memory alone."  He derided works like Simon Patrick's The Parable of the Pilgrim and Nathaniel Ingello's Bentivolio and Urania in another work, which concludes that "man differs more from man, than man from beast."  In that poem, this author wished to be a "dog, a monkey, or a bear" rather than being a "vain animal / Who is so proud of being rational."  FTP, name this 18th-century English poet of "A Satire Against Reason and Mankind" and the play Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery, who is played by Johnny Depp in the film The Libertine.
One of his works begins by imagining an admiral who watches from an adjacent hill as a battle transpires between "two rival fleets."  
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester