The English Parnassus, or, A helpe to English poesie containing a collection of all rhyming monosyllables, the choicest epithets, and phrases : with some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and theams, alphabeticaly digested : together with a short institution to English poesie, by way of a preface / by Joshua Poole.

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The English Parnassus, or, A helpe to English poesie containing a collection of all rhyming monosyllables, the choicest epithets, and phrases : with some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and theams, alphabeticaly digested : together with a short institution to English poesie, by way of a preface / by Joshua Poole.
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Poole, Josua, fl. 1632-1646.
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London :: Printed for Tho. Johnson,
1657.
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English poetry.
Epithets.
English language -- Rhyme -- Dictionaries.
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"The English Parnassus, or, A helpe to English poesie containing a collection of all rhyming monosyllables, the choicest epithets, and phrases : with some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and theams, alphabeticaly digested : together with a short institution to English poesie, by way of a preface / by Joshua Poole." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55357.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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Angry.
Having all his thoughts bound up in choler The icie current of his frozen blood s kndled up in agonies as hot As flames of burning Sulphur The ashy paleness of his cheeks. s scarlated in ruddy flakes of wrath, And like a bearded Meteor doth suck up With swiftest terrour all the dusky mists That over-cloud compassion in the brest, mpatience lowreth in his face, a February face, All full of frosts, and storms and cloudiness, And were his eye balls into bullets turn'd He would in rage have shot them at his face. Their eyes sparkling like the beaten flint Like Ajax Telamonius, When he on sheep and oxen spent his fury, Nor can he buckle his distemperd passion Within the belt of reason▪ Like a tyled house on fire, no coming near to quench it.

Had Narcissus lookt so when he was angry, and seen his own face, he could never have been in love with himself.

Fierce anger makes▪ the blood grow hot, Even as a fire-brand doth the seething pot; And then thy flaming eyes sparkling forth fire, Thou sayest and dost so in thy furious ire, That mad Orestes dares swear such a fact None but a man stark mad ere durst to act.

All his flegm is turned into choler. If God should have then armed him with thunder in 24. houres, there had neither been tent nor pavillion.

As if all his humours had turnd choller, His heart too great too great for his strait bosome grew Transported with his rage. Like to the chafed bore, whom eager hounds Have at a bay and terrifie with sounds. With eyes confessing rage, and eye-browes knit Her face as much as rage would suffer, fair. She stops, and shaking her dishevelld hair, So boyled Progne when she knew, Her sisters rape. His eyes blaze blood and fire, He frowns with eyes that sparkle fire,

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In whose red eyes two darted flames appeard, The curses lighten from his lip, So lookt great Agamemnon, when he heard Calchas unwelcome prophecy. Within his eyes a burning furnace glowes, Death and destruction muster in his face, Fretting like a piece of gumm'd velvet. Who like the roaring of the furious wind, Vents out the wild distempers of his mind. * 1.1

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