Thomas Sprat

Thomas Sprat, FRS (1635 – 20 May 1713) was an English churchman and writer, Bishop of Rochester from 1684.

Quotes

• Poetry, the queen of arts.
  • "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.
  • "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

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Thomas Sprat on Wikipedia