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 15, 2024.

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North.
The frozen pole, where winter which no spring can ase, With blasting cold doth glaze the Sythian seas. The frozen wain. The farthest shore, Washt by the Northern Ocean, Those whom dayes bright flame, Sarce warms—Their Northen Pole, VVhere a perpetuall winter binds the ground, And glazeth up the floods, VVhere Phoebus fire scarce thaws the Isickles. Cold Champions where No summer warmth the tree doth chear

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〈◊〉〈◊〉 Climates which a sullen air infest, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 where Galistho drives her frozn team. ••••here raigns the greater and the lesser Bear, ••••hich from their Poles view all things which they please, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 never set beneath the western seas, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Pole of the Parrhasian Maid, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 region under th' Erimanthian Bear.
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