See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:PARNELL (1679-1718)
, See also:English poet, was See also:born in See also:Dublin in 1679
.
His See also:father, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Parnell, belonged to a See also:family (see above) which had been See also:long settled at See also:Congleton, See also:Cheshire, but being a See also:partisan of the See also:Commonwealth, he removed with his See also:children to See also:Ireland after the Restoration, and See also:purchased an See also:estate in See also:Tipperary which descended to his son
.
In 1693 the son entered Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and in 1700 took his
M.A. degree, being ordained See also:deacon in the same See also:year in spite of his youth
.
In 1704 he became See also:minor See also:canon of St See also:Patrick's See also:Cathedral and in 1706 See also:archdeacon of See also:Clogher
.
Shortly after receiving this preferment he married See also:Anne Minchin, to whom he was sincerely attached
.
See also:Swift says that nearly a year after her See also:death (1711) he was still See also:ill with grief
.
His visits to See also:London are said to have begun as See also:early as t 7o6
.
He was intimate with See also:Richard See also:Steele and See also:Joseph See also:Addison, and although in 1711 he abandoned his Whig politics, there was no See also:change in the friend-See also:ship
.
Parnell was introduced to See also:Lord See also:Bolingbroke in 1712 by Swift, and subsequently to the See also:earl of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
.
In 1713 he contributed to the Poetical Miscellanies edited for See also:Tonson by Steele, and published his See also:Essay on the Different Styles of See also:Poetry
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He was a member of the Scriberlus See also:Club, and See also:Pope says that he had a See also:hand in " An Essay of the learned Martinus Scriblerus concerning the Origin of Sciences." He wrote the " Essay on the See also:Life and writings and learning of See also:Homer"' prefixed to Pope's See also:translations, and in the autumn of 1714 both were at See also:Bath together
.
In 1716 Parnell was presented to the vicarage of Finglass, when he resigned his archdeacenry
.
In the same. year he published Homer's See also:Battle of the Frogs and Mice
.
With the remarks of Zoilus
.
To which is prefixed, the Life of the said Zoilus
.
Parnell was in London again in 1718, and, on the way back to Ireland, was taken ill and died at See also:Chester, where he was buried on the 24th of See also:October
.
Parnell's best known poem is " The See also:Hermit," an admirably executed moral See also:conte written in the heroic See also:couplet
.
It is based on an old See also:story to be found in the Gesta Romanorum and other See also:sources
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He cannot in any sense be said to have been a See also:disciple of Pope, though his See also:verse may owe something to his friend's revision
.
But this and other of his pieces, " The Hymn to Contentment," " The See also:Night Piece on Death," " The See also:Fairy See also:Tale," were See also:original in treatment, and exercised some See also:influence on the See also:work of See also:Goldsmith, See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray and See also:Collins
.
Pope's selection of his poems was justified by the publication in 1758 of See also:Posthumous See also:Works of Dr Thomas Parnell, containing Poems Moral and Divine, and on various other subjects, which in no way added to his fame
.
They were contemptuously dismissed as unauthentic by Thomas Gray and See also:Samuel See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, but there seems no See also:reason to doubt the authorship
.
In 1770 Poems on Several Occasions was printed with a life of the author by See also:Oliver Goldsmith
.
His Poetical Works were printed in See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson's and other collections of the See also:British Poets
.
See The Poetical Works (1894) edited by See also:George A
.
Aitken for the Aldine Edition of the British Poets
.
An edition by the Rev
.
See also:John See also:Mitford for the same See also:series (1833) was reprinted in 1866
.
His See also:correspondence with Pope is published in Pope's Works (ed
.
Elwin and Courthorpe, vii
.
451-467)
.
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