The works of Monsieur Boileau. Made English by several hands [Vol I] [T143903]

DMI number:

1467

Aliases

Works of Boileau

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1714

Volume Number:

1 of 3

ESTC number:

T143903

Shelfmark:

BL 1065.h.24

Full Title:

THE | WORKS | Of Monsieur | BOILEAU | DESPREAUX. | In THREE VOLUMES | Made [i]English[/i] from the last [i]Paris[/i] Edition. | To which is prefix'd, | His LIFE, written to JOSEPH | ADDISON, Esq; by Mr. [i]Des-Maizeaux[/i]. | With some | Account of this Translation, | By [i]N. ROWE[/i], Esq; | [rule] | ADORN'D with CUTS. | [rule] | VOLUME the FIRST. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for E. CURLL, at the [i]Dial[/i] and [i]Bible[/i] against | St. [i]Dunstan[/i]'s Church in [i]Fleet-street[/i]. M DCC XIV. | Price of the Three Volumes, 15 [i]s[/i].

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of translations/imitations

Format:

Octavo

Price:

15 s. [for all 3 volumes]

Bibliographic details:

From ESTC: 'A reissue of the edition of 1711-13 with cancel titlepages.' Sigs.L6r-L8v (pp.155-160) are missing though catchword on p.154 matches with p.161 and text seems continuous. There is no sign of a cancel (though the volume is now in a modern binding). This is either an error in casting off copy (Curll overestimated how much room the satires etc. would take up and told his second compositor to start too soon); or the spare pages were used for the cancel titlepages and the partial gathering at the end of the volume (sigs. Yr-Y2v). Separate title page: The | LIFE | OF | Mons. [i]Boileau Despreaux[/i]. | [rule] | Written in French | By Mr. [i]DES MAIZEAUX[/i]. | Made [i]English[/i] from the [i]Manuscript[/i] copy | By Mr. [i]Ozell[/i]. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | Printed in the Year M DCC XII.

Comments:

PLATES: Engravings : frontispiece (by Vandergucht after a painting by De Piles), and facing pp. 1 (by Vandergucht designed by F. Knight); pp.18, 29, 39, 55, 73, 84 (by Hendrick Hulsbergh). PAGINATION: [8], [i]-lxxxiv, lxxxvii-cii, ci-clxviii, [16], [i]-xi, [5], 1-154, 161-324. (pp.vi, vii, x, xi, xiv, xv, xviii, ix, cxlviii, cxlix, 27, 182, 183, 192, 208, 237, 299 mispaginated x, xi, xiv, xv, xviii, xix, xxii, xxiii, clxviii, clxix, 72, 128, 185, 112, 228, 23 ('7' pencilled into BL 1065.h.24), 289 respectively. pp.lxxxv-lxxxvi have been skipped in pagination sequence, and pp.ci-cii are repeated, but text and register continuous. However, sigs.L6r-L8v (pp.155-160) are missing (see bibliographical detail). ATTRIBUTION: Those poems in the prefatory material that are not taken from the translations in the body of the volume may be taken to be by John Ozell, the translator of the letter from Des-Maizeaux in which the fragments appear. However, in the absence of explicit attribution where the poems appear (and partly because the translations of Boileau's verse themselves are mostly unattributed) they have not been attributed to Ozell in the index.

Other matter:

Prefatory: The Life of Monsieur Boileau' (pp.[i]-clxviii); Boileau's general Preface (pp.[i]-xi); Contents [5pp.]; dedication to Halifax (sigs. A2r-A4r); Boileau's preface to Le Lutrin (sigs. A4v-A5v); Account of Boileau's Writings (sigs. A6r-A8v);

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Title:

The works of Monsieur Boileau. Made English by several hands [Vol I] [T143904]

Publication Date:

1712

ESTC No:

T143904

Volume:

1 of 2

Relationship:

Reissue

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Title:

The works of Monsieur Boileau. Made English by several hands [Vol II] [T143903]

Publication Date:

1714

ESTC No:

T143903

Volume:

2 of 3

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

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Title:

The works of Monsieur Boileau. Made English by several hands [Vol III] [T143903]

Publication Date:

1714

ESTC No:

T143903

Volume:

3 of 3

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Title:

The works of Monsieur Boileau. Made English by several hands. [Vol I] [ECCO] [N25822]

Publication Date:

1736

ESTC No:

N25822

Volume:

1 of 2

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Another Edition of

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Related People

Dedicatee:

Charles Montagu

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Absolute (100%)

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Engraver:

Gerard Vandergucht

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Frontipiece and engraving facing p. 1 signed 'M. V.dr Gucht Scul.'

Engraver:

Henry Hulsbergh [Hulsberg]

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Engravings facing pp.18, 29, 39, 55, 73, 84 signed 'H. Hulsbergh Sc:'

Publisher:

Edmund Curll

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

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Content/Publication

First Line:

But halt my pen and thou my presence quit

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pp.cl-cli

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

But now that I am old and on my head

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p.cviii

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Even I whose merit's so much less than thine

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p.lxvi

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

False teachers next in numerous crowds arise

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pp.cxv-cxvi

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fathers in god whom I revere

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pp.clxviii-clxix [i.e. pp.cxlviii-cxlix]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If at my years said he I turn one page

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pp.xlvi-xlvii

Poem Title:

[no title]

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Not attributed

First Line:

If in the morn the chanter dares destroy

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pp.xlvii-xlviii

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

If my past writings for my present plead

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pp.cviii-cvix

Poem Title:

[no title]

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Not attributed

First Line:

Midst the soft pleasures of fraternal peace

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pp.xlv

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

My sire to business threescore years applied

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pp.xx-xxi

Poem Title:

[no title]

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Not attributed

First Line:

Of you my verse if any should enquire

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pp.xxi-xxii

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Riches I saw must be acquired by sweat

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pp.lix-lx

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Right when I undertook to prove

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pp.cxl-cxli

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Tell them by chance I in my greener age

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p.cx

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The man thou seest was to the law

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p.x

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The poets' wars at Paris cease

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pp.cxxi-cxxii

Poem Title:

[no title]

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Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The prelate saw their fall with ghastful eyes

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pp.l-lii

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

The reader now no longer can endure

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p.lxiii

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This peaceful man who does the canvas stain

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p.xvii [i.e. xx]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Twas sacred satire first inspired my song

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p.xxii

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Wife to a man of candor sweetness ease

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p.xvii [i.e. xxi]

Poem Title:

[no title]

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Not attributed

First Line:

You think the public will be proud to read

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pp.xxiii-xxivi

Poem Title:

[no title]

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Not attributed

First Line:

Arms and the priest I sing whose martial soul

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pp.1-83

Poem Title:

The Lutrin: A Mock-Heroic Poem.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Rash author tis a vain presumptuous crime

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pp.84-138

Poem Title:

The Art of Poetry. In Four Cantos.

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Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Damon a mighty author who had long

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pp.139-149

Poem Title:

Satire I.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O happy wit whose rare and fruitful vein

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pp.150-154

Poem Title:

Satire II. To M. De Moliere.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whence comes it friend that thou art so changed of late

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pp.161-174

Poem Title:

Satire III.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me Le Vayer whence does it arise

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pp.174-185 [i.e. 183]

Poem Title:

Satire IV. To M. L'Abbe' Le Vayer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I grant Dangeau nobility in man

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pp.185 [i.e. 183]-193

Poem Title:

Satire V. To the Marquis De Dangeau. [...] Corrected and Completed from the Original.

Attribution:

Done by Mr. Oldham.

Attributed To:

John Oldham

First Line:

What noise is this good God what doleful cries

Page No:

pp.193-202

Poem Title:

Satire VI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No more my muse though satire may prevail

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pp.202-228 [i.e.208]

Poem Title:

Satire VII.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of all the creatures which earth's surface tread

Page No:

pp.209-230

Poem Title:

Satire VIII. To Monsr. M***, Dr. of the Sorbonne.

Attribution:

Imitated by Mr. Oldham, in the Year 1682. Compar'd and Corrected, from the Original, by Mr. Ozell

Attributed To:

John Oldham

John Ozell

First Line:

The faults of others I enough have shown

Page No:

pp.231-250

Poem Title:

Satire IX.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis true then you're of roaring weary grown

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pp.252-302

Poem Title:

A Dialogue, Or Satire X.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Yes honour Valincour to all is dear

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pp.305-319

Poem Title:

Satire. XI.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Blessed as the immortal Gods is he

Page No:

p.322

Poem Title:

An Ode of Sappho, Quoted by Longinus. [...] Ad Lesbiam.

Attribution:

Thus by Mr. Philips.

Attributed To:

Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Happy who near you sigh for you alone

Page No:

pp.323-324

Poem Title:

An Ode of Sappho. Quoted by Longinus. [...] Ad Lesbiam.

Attribution:

Thus Paraphras'd by a Lady.

Attributed To:

Not attributed