- Creator:
- Rose, Aquila, 1695-1723
- Published / Created:
- [18th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c346
- Image Count:
- 92
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript of a poem on the debate contest at King Darius' court chronicled in I Esdras 3-4. In the end Darius promises to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple as Zerubbabel's prize for his winning oration which argued that "women were more strong than wine; the ample pow'r of kings to them decline; but truth the strongest." The dedicatory preface quotes and compares several examples of classical and biblical verse, and explains that the Muses which he invokes in the poem are only a metaphor for natural poetic inclinations.
- Description:
- Binding: stitched, Marbled-paper endsheets, with handwriting beneath. and Dedication: To my ever-honoured father, Joseph Rose of Alesbury in the County of Bucks.
- Subject (Name):
- Rose, Aquila,--1695-1723 and Zerubbabel--(Biblical figure)
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Esdras, 1st, Bible--History of Biblical events--Poetry--Early works to 1800, English poetry--18th century, and Religious poetry, English--18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Zorobabel's conquest, or, the triple contention A poem, [18th century].
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