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
