Friday, 16 October 2015

Victory Ode Celebrating Britain's Defeat of America in the War of 1776

So, yes. Maybe this was published a touch prematurely ...


I especially love the way this piece of ill-advised triumphalism is bundled-in with ‘An Ode to Mr Pinchbeck, Upon his Newly-Invented Patent Candle Snuffers’
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1 comment:

  1. David Moles26 October 2015 at 14:51

    I assume the point of this whole genre, at the time, must have been to advertise things like patent candle-snuffers?

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