Related People: Nicolas Boileau Despréaux

1. Gilles Boileau

Born:: 1631
Died:: 1669
DMI number:: 5065

2. A poor old wretch beneath the weight

First Line:: A poor old wretch beneath the weight
Last Line:: And your petitioner shall pray
DMI number:: 8976

3. And dost thou music think to charm

First Line:: And dost thou music think to charm
Last Line:: Let our anger let it cease | I receive her here in peace | Let our anger &c
DMI number:: 8947

4. And O my angry stars as if in spite

First Line:: And O my angry stars as if in spite
Last Line:: The sense says Marlbrough but the rhyme cries -----
DMI number:: 6156

5. Arms and the priest I sing whose martial soul

First Line:: Arms and the priest I sing whose martial soul
Last Line:: With shame oppressed young Cicero plunges down
Author:: John Ozell (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8776

6. Behold in peace and war a monarch great

First Line:: Behold in peace and war a monarch great
Last Line:: And seen his lilies dim their eagle's eye
DMI number:: 8978

7. Brebeuf in well deserving lines

First Line:: Brebeuf in well deserving lines
Last Line:: With him who sings the ass's hide
DMI number:: 8929

8. Believe me Will that they who have least sense

First Line:: Believe me Will that they who have least sense
Last Line:: Lies in the more or less degree of sense
DMI number:: 3865

9. Believe me Will that those who have least sense

First Line:: Believe me Will that those who have least sense
Last Line:: Lies in the more or the less want of sense
DMI number:: 6496

10. Born for a court and versed in every art

First Line:: Born for a court and versed in every art
Last Line:: I who to sweet content do every good confine
DMI number:: 8966

11. But halt my pen and thou my presence quit

First Line:: But halt my pen and thou my presence quit
Last Line:: For trying of Apollo keep their courts
DMI number:: 27926

12. But marriage is a yoke the better still

First Line:: But marriage is a yoke the better still
Last Line:: And never is he so free but when in chains
DMI number:: 39952

13. But now that I am old and on my head

First Line:: But now that I am old and on my head
Last Line:: Our brighter days are gone
DMI number:: 27919

14. But well those raptures if you'll make us see

First Line:: But well those raptures if you'll make us see
Last Line:: In a cold style describes a hot desire
DMI number:: 10409

15. Cease sir to conquer or I cease to write

First Line:: Cease sir to conquer or I cease to write
Last Line:: I stop at once admire and hold my tongue
DMI number:: 8969

16. Come philosophers come you that boast in your learning

First Line:: Come philosophers come you that boast in your learning
Last Line:: Whilst all speak in praise of the humorous rake | Your learning is little and little your knowledge | Come tope it about you old sots of the college
DMI number:: 8921

17. Come Pradon and you Bonnecorse

First Line:: Come Pradon and you Bonnecorse
Last Line:: To herd with Perrin and Liniere
DMI number:: 8983

18. Climene something has perplexed me

First Line:: Climene something has perplexed me
Last Line:: 'Tis not with you I can assure you
DMI number:: 9443

19. Clio complained upon a time

First Line:: Clio complained upon a time
Last Line:: Before the eyes of you the sun
DMI number:: 9433

20. Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit

First Line:: Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit
Last Line:: Hammering out paltry lines twelve times twelve hundred
DMI number:: 9446

21. Cooper how foolish would that author be

First Line:: Cooper how foolish would that author be
Last Line:: It may a while be thumbed and then forgot
Author:: John Oldmixon (Speculation)
DMI number:: 6205

22. Cowper how foolish would that author be

First Line:: Cowper how foolish would that author be
Last Line:: It may a while be thumbed and then forgot
DMI number:: 8970

23. Damon a mighty author who had long

First Line:: Damon a mighty author who had long
Last Line:: Adieu to Paris then a long adieu
DMI number:: 8797

24. Did Perrault the assassin ever give

First Line:: Did Perrault the assassin ever give
Last Line:: Tis false and needs no proof for I'm alive
DMI number:: 8986

25. Equivocation of infernal kind

First Line:: Equivocation of infernal kind
Last Line:: And summon Phoebus to their monthly bar
DMI number:: 8913

26. Duonis great heart the greatest ever was known

First Line:: Duonis great heart the greatest ever was known
Last Line:: Great heart which two great lovers contained alone
DMI number:: 8956

27. False teachers next in numerous crowds arise

First Line:: False teachers next in numerous crowds arise
Last Line:: Place all their virtue in confessing sin
DMI number:: 27922

28. Fathers in god whom I revere

First Line:: Fathers in god whom I revere
Last Line:: Ill must it go with their affairs
DMI number:: 27925

29. Even Phaenicia does declare

First Line:: Even Phaenicia does declare
Last Line:: Nothing with Clelia can compare
DMI number:: 8952

30. For what should I my sleeping muse awake

First Line:: For what should I my sleeping muse awake
Last Line:: Twas a good oyster gentlemen adieu
DMI number:: 8963

31. For that magnanimous front those heavenly eyes

First Line:: For that magnanimous front those heavenly eyes
Last Line:: And burn in sacrifice before the dame
DMI number:: 8957

32. Great prince for from this hour I'll call you great

First Line:: Great prince for from this hour I'll call you great
Last Line:: From belly back from haunches and from head
Author:: Isaac Littlebury (Confident)
DMI number:: 39956

33. Hail king of horses noble Rosinante

First Line:: Hail king of horses noble Rosinante
Last Line:: Did gallop once or else the historian fails
DMI number:: 9442

34. Heaven knows the weakness of his roving mind

First Line:: Heaven knows the weakness of his roving mind
Last Line:: The priest could not out-preach you at St Roach
DMI number:: 39953

35. Happy who near you sigh for you alone

First Line:: Happy who near you sigh for you alone
Last Line:: Disordered breathless pale and cold I die
DMI number:: 8908

36. He that can put a bridle on the waves

First Line:: He that can put a bridle on the waves
Last Line:: 'Tis God I fear dear Abner and none else
DMI number:: 8918

37. Here first the doctor's talent came in play

First Line:: Here first the doctor's talent came in play
Last Line:: And from ill doctor turns good architect
DMI number:: 10803

38. Her generous style at random oft will part

First Line:: Her generous style at random oft will part
Last Line:: And by a brave disorder shows her art
DMI number:: 10418

39. How comes it Perrault I would gladly know

First Line:: How comes it Perrault I would gladly know
Last Line:: And then no wonder if they meet no praise
DMI number:: 8985

40. How doubly sweet is Baville's air

First Line:: How doubly sweet is Baville's air
Last Line:: Nay what is worse a Jansenist
DMI number:: 8980

41. How happy would it be to love

First Line:: How happy would it be to love
Last Line:: The flame does soon decay
DMI number:: 8953

42. I grant Dangeau nobility in man

First Line:: I grant Dangeau nobility in man
Last Line:: That France has subjects worthy of their prince
Author:: John Oldham (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8806

43. In charming infancy's disguise

First Line:: In charming infancy's disguise
Last Line:: The brightness of his mother's eyes
DMI number:: 8940

44. In Cornwall once or somewhere else

First Line:: In Cornwall once or somewhere else
Last Line:: I' faith good folks good night to ye
DMI number:: 6216

45. In vain to praise thee is my muse prepared

First Line:: In vain to praise thee is my muse prepared
Last Line:: And plant her laurels where thy lilies grow
DMI number:: 8965

46. In want and what's a greater curse

First Line:: In want and what's a greater curse
Last Line:: Was ever gratitude so rare
DMI number:: 8977

47. In vain a thousand jealous wits

First Line:: In vain a thousand jealous wits
Last Line:: Be less diverting and less witty
DMI number:: 9439

48. In vain great sir keen satire I disown

First Line:: In vain great sir keen satire I disown
Last Line:: But both the poem and the fact are true
DMI number:: 8962

49. In vain my muse I bid you hold in vain

First Line:: In vain my muse I bid you hold in vain
Last Line:: For ever now farewell a long adieu
DMI number:: 8971

50. Let the self lover these strict lessons learn

First Line:: Let the self lover these strict lessons learn
Last Line:: Will cure his passion and correct his pride
DMI number:: 9438

51. My sire to business threescore years applied

First Line:: My sire to business threescore years applied
Last Line:: On scrolls over which with so much gain they pored
DMI number:: 27909

52. My rhyme unforced attends to reasons call

First Line:: My rhyme unforced attends to reasons call
Last Line:: Or take him for a friend to truth
DMI number:: 8945

53. My friend Bilain as yesterday

First Line:: My friend Bilain as yesterday
Last Line:: I have 'em all they're lasting ware
DMI number:: 9441

54. My friend Marullus I'm uneasy

First Line:: My friend Marullus I'm uneasy
Last Line:: So dull and wanting more of flame than phlegm
DMI number:: 9445

55. If my past writings for my present plead

First Line:: If my past writings for my present plead
Last Line:: Yet will not dare his frailties to defend
DMI number:: 27920

56. Learned sir you're right for all engaged in sin

First Line:: Learned sir you're right for all engaged in sin
Last Line:: This doctrine to refute and strike me dumb
DMI number:: 8973

57. Midst the soft pleasures of fraternal peace

First Line:: Midst the soft pleasures of fraternal peace
Last Line:: And substitute a journeyman divine
DMI number:: 27912

58. Mean while the father full of dreadful care

First Line:: Mean while the father full of dreadful care
Last Line:: Go there says he return aside stop short
DMI number:: 8915

59. Mistake not fathers read it once again

First Line:: Mistake not fathers read it once again
Last Line:: With sparks of lust the punished sinners breast
DMI number:: 8919

60. Lucilius led the way and bravely bold

First Line:: Lucilius led the way and bravely bold
Last Line:: In what he writes there is something of divine
DMI number:: 31543

61. No I'll never wed nor be a married slave

First Line:: No I'll never wed nor be a married slave
Last Line:: Do marriage as a cursed infection shun
DMI number:: 5785

62. O happy wit whose rare and fruitful vein

First Line:: O happy wit whose rare and fruitful vein
Last Line:: Teach me then dear Moliere to rhyme no more
Author:: John Oldmixon (Confident)
DMI number:: 8798

63. Now when grey time in his impartial course

First Line:: Now when grey time in his impartial course
Last Line:: Eleven Lustra and two years has shed
DMI number:: 39957

64. No more my muse though satire may prevail

First Line:: No more my muse though satire may prevail
Last Line:: Give over tomorrow we'll begin again
DMI number:: 8822

65. Of all the creatures which earth's surface tread

First Line:: Of all the creatures which earth's surface tread
Last Line:: Man is a beast good faith as much as we
Author:: John Oldham (Absolute) & John Ozell (Absolute)
DMI number:: 8864

66. Of all the pens which my poor rhymes molest

First Line:: Of all the pens which my poor rhymes molest
Last Line:: Writes scoundrel verses and then says they're mine
DMI number:: 9434

67. Of you my verse if any should enquire

First Line:: Of you my verse if any should enquire
Last Line:: And near to Regnier on Parnassus rose
DMI number:: 27910

68. Oh with what art Racine dost thou inspire

First Line:: Oh with what art Racine dost thou inspire
Last Line:: Leave thou to Pradon such a senseless pit
DMI number:: 8968

69. Oh let me the wonder of our days

First Line:: Oh let me the wonder of our days
Last Line:: And you shall see that love for ever stays
DMI number:: 8954

70. Or in cold couplets careless of the fair

First Line:: Or in cold couplets careless of the fair
Last Line:: Sicken in simile and pine away
DMI number:: 8949

71. Plain was my spouse and mild sweet natured I

First Line:: Plain was my spouse and mild sweet natured I
Last Line:: Only on these few lines and never write
DMI number:: 6146

72. Paulus the famous quack renowned afar

First Line:: Paulus the famous quack renowned afar
Last Line:: And buries people not to change his trade
DMI number:: 8934

73. Rash author tis a vain presumptuous crime

First Line:: Rash author tis a vain presumptuous crime
Last Line:: A sharp but yet a necessary friend
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute) & John Ozell (Speculation) & Sir William Soame (Confident)
DMI number:: 6606