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English ballads > Literature & Theatre > Panegyrick on the author of Absolom and Achitophel

Panegyrick on the author of Absolom and Achitophel
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/86766361
Description	" ... occasioned by his former writing of an elegy in praise of Oliver Cromwel, lately reprinted". First line reads: When old philosophers wrote the worlds birth. In one column. On John Dryden's "Poem upon the death of his late Highness Oliver, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Sheet is signed on recto: A.
Shelfmark	Crawford.EB.3465
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1681 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Ballads Poems Eulogies
Person / organisation:	Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 [Subject of text] Dryden, John, 1631-1700 [Subject of text]
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English ballads
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Description	Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.
Attribution and copyright:	Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1800-1900 [Date printed]
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