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The Poetical Works of Churchill, Parnell, and Tickell (2); With a Life of Each
The Poetical Works of Churchill Parnell and Tickell With a Life of Each - 2 Author:Charles Churchill Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: Houghton, Osgood Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text... more ». When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE LIFE OF THOMAS PARNELL.' BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH. The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure. His fame is acquired in solitude; and the historian, who only views him at a distance, must be content with a dry detail of actions by which he is scarcely distinguished from the rest of mankind. But we are fond of talking of those who have given us pleasure; not that we have any thing important to say, but because the subject is pleasing. Thomas Parnell, D. D., was descended from an ancient family, that had for some centuries been settled at Congleton, in Cheshire. His father, Thomas Parnell, who had been attached to the Commonwealth party, upon the Restoration went over to Ireland; thither he carried a large personal fortune, which he laid out in lands in that kingdom. The estates he purchased there, as The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, including variety of pieces now first collected. By James Prior. also that of which he was possessed in Cheshire, descended to our poet, who was his eldest son, and still remain in' the family. Thus want, which has compelled many of Out greatest men into the service of the muses, had no influence upon Par- nell; he was a poet by inclination. He was born in Dublin, in the year 1679, and received the first rudiments of his education at the school of Dr. Jones, in that city. Surprising things are told us of the greatness of his memory at that early period; as of his being able to repeat by heart forty lines o...« less