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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Title: 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.
Author: Poole, Josua, fl. 1632-1646.
Publication: London :: Printed for Tho. Johnson,; 1657.
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Subject terms: English poetry.; Epithets.; English language -- Rhyme -- Dictionaries.
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Learned. v. Eloquent.
The Muses minion. A branch of Minerva's Olive.
A knowing soul. Lights of nature. Gulfe of learning.
Gyant of wit. Monarch of wit. Quintessence of wit.
Walking, breathing library. Atlas of letters.
Dictatour of learning. Zenodotus heart. Crates liver.
Minerva's tower. Rich mine of wit.
Magazin of learning. Architect of wit.
Monarch of Sciences. Learnings triumphant Victor.
That rul'd as he thought fit,
The whole monopoly of wit, Englands third University
Whom all the Muses court. Walking Vatican.
In the firmament of learning, he will shine to all poste∣••ity, a star of the first magnitude.
A soul so learn'd, truth fear'd that she
Might stand too nakt near his philosophy.
Many languag••s, that departed from Babel in a confusi∣on, met in his mouth in a method.
The only wise,
And when he dies, the fame of wisdome dies.
Phaebus to him his oracles resign'd.
Wisdome is only to his breast confi••'d. v. Aristotle.