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.
- Author
- Poole, Josua, fl. 1632-1646.
- Publication
- 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 16, 2024.
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Page 382
His self like jawes still grin, more than for food,
He flaughters beasts and still delights in blood,
His arms to thighs, his cloths to brisles chang'd
A wolf not much from his first form estrang'd,
So hoary hai••'d, his looks so full of rape,
So fierie ey'd so terrible his shape.