The World's Great Masterpieces
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ISBN13: 9780217898423
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 8747 THOMAS PARNELL. Thomas Pabnell, an Irish poet, born at Dublin in 1679; died at Chester, England, in October, 1718. He was educated at the College of Dublin, took orders, and was made Archdeacon of Clogher in 1706; but the greater part of his mature life was passed in England. A selection from his Poems, edited by Pope, appeared in 1721. His chief pieces are two odes, A Night-piece on Death, The Hymn to Contentment, and The Hermit. The Ways Op Providence Justified. (From The Hermit.) The Maker justly claims that world He made; In this the right of Providence is laid; Its sacred majesty through all depends On using second means to work His ends. 'Tis thus, withdrawn in state from human eye, The power exerts His attributes on high, Your actions uses, nor controls your will, And bids the doubting sons of men be still. What strange events can strike with more surprise Than those which lately caught my wondering eyes ? Yet taught by these, confess the Almighty just, And where you can't unriddle, learn to trust. ' The great, vain man, who fared on costly food, Whose life was too luxurious to be good, Who made his ivory stands with goblets shine, And forced his guests to morning draught of wine, Has with the cup the graceless custom lost; And still he welcomes, but with less of cost, The mean, suspicious wretch, whose bolted door Ne'er moved in duty to the wandering poor: With him I left the cup, to teach his mind That heaven can bless if mortals will be kind. Conscious of wanting worth, he views the bowl, And feels compassion touch his grateful soul. Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead With heaping coals of fire upon its head; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below. Long had our piou...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217898423 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217898424 |
| Weight | 0.95 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 In |
| List Price | $21.61 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 290 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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