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

DMI number:

396

Aliases

Works of Boileau

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

Publication Date:

1712

Volume Number:

1 of 2

ESTC number:

T143904

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW3312666134

Shelfmark:

BL 1065.h.21

Full Title:

THE | WORKS |OF | [i]Monsieur BOILEAU[/i]. | Made [i]English[/i] from the last PARIS [i]Edition[/i], | By SEVERAL Hands. | To which is prefix'd | HIS LIFE, | Written to [i]JOSEPH ADDISON[/i], Esq; | By Mr. [i]Des Maizeaux[/i]. | And 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. SANGER at the [i]Post-House[/i], and | E. CURLL at the [i]Dial[/i] and [i]Bible[/i], both in [i]Fleet-| street[/i], M DCC XII.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of translations/imitations

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

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: 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, 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). Contents: First part of miscellany (a biography of Boileau) is mostly prose; verse quotations 4 lines or longer have been indexed.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Dedication of volume to Halifax (sigs.a-a2v); The Life of Mons. Boileau Despreaux (pp.i-clxviii); Dedication of Le Lutrin to Halifax (sigs.A2-A4); Boileau's preface to Le Lutrin (sigs.A4v-A5v); 'Account of Coileau's Writings' signed N. Rowe (sigs.A6-A8v); Boileau's general preface (sigs.a-a6); Contents (sigs.a6v-a8v).

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Title:

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Publication Date:

1711

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T143904

Volume:

2 of 2

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Unknown

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Title:

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

Publication Date:

1736

ESTC No:

N25822

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2 of 2

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Title:

Posthumous works of Monsieur Boileau [T143905]

Publication Date:

1713

ESTC No:

T143905

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1 of 1

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Unknown

Comments:

Title:

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

Publication Date:

1714

ESTC No:

T143903

Volume:

1 of 3

Relationship:

Reissue

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

Relationship:

Another Edition of

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Related People

Dedicatee:

Charles Montagu

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Two dedications to Halifax - whole volume and Le Lutrin.

Publisher:

E. Sanger

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for E. SANGER at the Post-House, and E. CURLL at the Dial and Bible, both in Fleet-street.'

Publisher:

Edmund Curll

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for E. SANGER at the Post-House, and E. CURLL at the Dial and Bible, both in Fleet-street.'

Translated from:

Nicolas Boileau Despréaux

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Absolute (100%)

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Content/Publication

First Line:

Even I whose merit's so much less than thine

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p.lxvi

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[no title]

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If at my years said he I turn one page

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pp.xlvi-xlvii

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[no title]

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If in the morn the chanter dares destroy

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pp.xlvii-xlviii

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[no title.]

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Midst the soft pleasures of fraternal peace

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p.xlv

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[no title]

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My sire to business threescore years applied

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pp.xx-xxi

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[no title]

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Of you my verse if any should enquire

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pp.xxi-xxii

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[no title]

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Riches I saw must be acquired by sweat

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pp.lix-lx

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[no title]

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The man thou seest was to the law

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p.x

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[no title]

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The prelate saw their fall with ghastful eyes

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pp.l-lii

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The reader now no longer can endure

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p.lxiii

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This peaceful man who does the canvas stain

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p.xvi

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Twas sacred satire first inspired my song

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p.xxii[i.e. xviii]

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Wife to a man of candor sweetness ease

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p.xvii

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You think the public will be proud to read

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pp.xxiii-xxiv

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[no title]

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But halt my pen and thou my presence quit

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pp.cl-cli

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[no title]

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But now that I am old and on my head

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p.cviii

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[no title]

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False teachers next in numerous crowds arise

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pp.cxv-cxvi

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[no title]

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Fathers in god whom I revere

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pp.clxviii-clxix

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[no title]

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If my past writings for my present plead

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pp.cviii-cix

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[no title]

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Right when I undertook to prove

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pp.cxl-cxli

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[no title]

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Tell them by chance I in my greener age

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p.cx

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[no title]

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The poets' wars at Paris cease

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pp.cxxi-cxxii

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[no title]

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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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First Line:

Rash author tis a vain presumptuous crime

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pp.84-138

Poem Title:

The Art of Poetry. In Four Canto's.

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Sir William Soames's Translation....corrected, as it now stands; with Some modern Applications; by the Gentleman who was principally concern'd in the Version of the Lutrin, and who has lately publish'd an excellent Translation of the Secchia Rapita, or The Trophy Bucket (p. 138)

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Sir William Soame

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Damon a mighty author who had long

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pp.139-149

Poem Title:

Satire I.

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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.

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First Line:

Whence comes it friend that thou art so changed of late

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pp.161-174

Poem Title:

Satire III.

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First Line:

Tell me Le Vayer whence does it arise

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pp.174-185

Poem Title:

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

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First Line:

I grant Dangeau nobility in man

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pp.185-193

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

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pp.193-202

Poem Title:

Satire VI.

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First Line:

No more my muse though satire may prevail

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

Poem Title:

Satire VII.

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First Line:

Of all the creatures which earth's surface tread

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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

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John Ozell

John Oldham

First Line:

The faults of others I enough have shown

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pp.231-250

Poem Title:

Satire IX.

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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.

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First Line:

Yes honour Valincour to all is dear

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pp.305-319

Poem Title:

Satire. XI.

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First Line:

Blessed as the immortal Gods is he

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pp.322

Poem Title:

[An Ode of Sappho, Quoted by Longinus. Thus Translated by Catullus. Ad Lesbiam. ('Ille mi par esse Deo videtur')]

Attribution:

Thus by Mr. Philips

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Ambrose Philips

First Line:

Happy who near you sigh for you alone

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pp.323-324

Poem Title:

[An Ode of Sappho, Quoted by Longinus. Thus Translated by Catullus. Ad Lesbiam. ('Ille mi par esse Deo videtur')]

Attribution:

Thus Paraphras'd by a Lady

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