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.
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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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Building. v. astle. * 1.1
An Aedifice to outwrastle time, Those sports for ruine, and times bartery. The structure in brave beauty strove With what the height of fancy could express, * 1.2 Or any pens most graceful happiness Describe aright. Like the Pallace of the Sun, Like that wherein Her Caesar Cleopatra entertaind,

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When from Pharsalia, he in Aegypt gain'd A second victory, All showd the builders, cravd the seer's care Th'amazed beholders wondering eyes, Were taken captive at the sight. The Camfred pillars, plinths, and antick bosses, Medals, ascents, statues, and strange Colosses Which buss the clouds, kiss their own feet at last Buried in their own dust. And nod their drowsie heads unto the ground, Those lasting monuments, Where Mars with Venus dwells, Beutie with strength.

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