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Thomas Parnell (1679–1718)
Parnell, Thomas. An Irish poet; born at Dublin, 1679; died in 1718. He was a minister of the established Irish Church, and held a cure of souls in Ireland, but spent most of his life in England. His works are: a volume of ‘Poems,’ in which is ‘The Hermit’; a ‘Life of Homer’ prefixed, and a translation of the ‘Battle of the Frogs and Mice’ always suffixed, to Pope’s version of the Iliad.