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Thomas Sprat : 'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince, Oliver Lord Protector, &c. Pindarick Ode'

Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from Thomas Sprat's 'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince, Oliver Lord Protector, &c. Pindarick Ode', in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1659), pp. 11-30.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

Thomas Sprat : The Plague of Athens

Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from the fifth edition of Thomas Sprat's The Plague of Athens (1688) [p.34] [...] his allegory on the English revolution.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pordage      Print: Book

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