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Ode on Corydon and Caesar's Salve in London News
A long verse fragment laments Corydon's fame and compares his enduring memory to kings. The piece contrasts pastoral virtue with royal decay and ends with reflections on mortality, then shifts to miscellaneous notices from London and abroad, including parliamentary gossip, naval depictions, and market prices. The London postings touch Wilkes and Wilkesian politics, foreign dispatches, and local curiosities, weaving poetry with terse commercial and social notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Wilkes
Naples
Foreign Gazettes
Europe
England
Aylesbury
Rome
Cardinal of
York
Lunbar
Inverness
France
Canada
Great Britain
Paris
Jamaica
Tyrrel
Isabella Bay
Hispaniola
Berlin
Prussia
Silesia
Poniatowski
Royal Regiment of
Scotch Muaileers
Dartford
Portsmouth
West
Florida
Antwerp
Austrian Netherlands
Norfolk
Thomas Deverell
Leighton Buzzard
Bedfordshire
Knode Island
Hornley-down
King’s Arms Yard
Whitecross Streets
Bench of Justices
Hicks’s Hall
William V
Prince of
Orange and Nassau
Christ
Joan Lawrencer Mosueim
J. P
University of
Gottingen
Archibald Maclaine
Hague
A- Millar
White’s Chocolate House
Bedford
Westminster