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See also:PARNELL, 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 (1679-1718) , See also:English poet, was See also:born in See also:Dublin in 1679. His See also:father, Thomas 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. 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. 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).
End of Article: PARNELL, THOMAS (1679-1718)
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