Wq/ms/Thomas Parnell

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Thomas Parnell (11 September 1679 – 24 Oktober 1718) merupakan seorang pemuisi, dilahirkan di Dublin dan dididik di Kolej Tritunggal, Dublin. Beliau merupakan anak murid kepada kedua-dua Alexander Pope dan Jonathan Swift, menyertai dalam Kelab Scriblerus, menyumbang The Spectator, dan membantu Paus dalam terjemahannya dari The Iliad. Beliau merupakan salah satu yang seolah-olah dipanggil "Pemuisi Graveyard": 'A Night-Piece on Death,' meluas dianggap puisi "Sekolah Graveyard" pertama, telah diterbitkan selepas kematiannya dalam Poems on Several Occasions.

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• Still an angel appear to each lover beside,
  But still be a woman to you.
  • When thy Beauty appears.

• Remote from man, with God he passed the days;
  Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
  • The Hermit, line 5.

• We call it only pretty Fanny’s way.
  • An Elegy to an Old Beauty.

• Let those love now who never loved before;
  Let those who always loved, now love the more.
  • Translation of the Pervigilium Veneris, written in the time of Julius Caesar, and by some ascribed to Catullus: Cras amet qui numquam amavit; Quique amavit, cras amet.

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