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Thomas Sprat
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“Poetry, the queen of arts.”
Thomas Sprat (1635–1713) first seen 1708 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode upon the Poems of Abraham Cowley", st. 8, in Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems (London: printed for Bernard Lintott, [1708]), p. 106
“'Tis true, great name, thou art secure From the forgetfulness and rage Of death, or envy, or devouring age. Thou canst the force of teeth and time endure; Thy fame, like men, the older it doth grow, Will of itself turn whiter too, Without what needless art can do.”
Thomas Sprat (1635–1713) first seen 1711 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To the Happy Memory of the late Lord Protector", 1. 5, quoted in The History of King James's Ecclesiastical Commission (London: printed for T. Harrison ... and S. Popping, 1711), p. 67