Thomas Sprat

thumb| 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 secureFrom the forgetfulness and rageOf 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 Category:1635 births Category:1713 deaths Category:Anglican bishops Category:Theologians from England