The works of Monsieur Boileau. Made English by several hands [Vol II] [T143904]
- DMI number:
- 397
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1711
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T143904
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW3313330716
- Shelfmark:
- BL 1065.h.22
- Full Title:
- THE | WORKS |OF | Monsr.[i]Boileau Despreaux[/i].| [rule] | VOLUME II. | [rule] | CONTAINING | I. LONGINUSs Treatise of the [i]SUBLIME[/i]. | With Critical Reflections on some Passages out of | [i]Longinus[/i] ; wherein Answer is occasionally made | to some Objections of Monsieur [i]Perrault[/i] against | [i]Homer[/i] and [i]Pindar[/i] : Likewise further Remarks and | Observations by [i]Dacier[/i], [i]Boivin[/i], &c. | II. MISCELLANIES, with a Discourse upon [i]Satire[/i]. | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i]: | Printed for E. SANGER, and E. CURLL. | MDCCXI.
- Genres:
- Collection of translations/imitations
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- 475pp. [check]
- Bibliographic details:
- (1st edition); 2 vols. 2nd volume dated 1711. Sigs. m*-[?m*2v?], containing 'An Ode, Written in the Year, 1656. On a Report, That Cromwell and the English were going to make War upon France,' and ending with a blank page, have been inserted between sig. l8v (p.168) and sig. mr. (p.169). SEPARATE TITLE PAGE: A | TREATISE | OF THE | SUBLIME. | [rule] | [i]Translated from the[/i] Greek [i]of[/i] LONGINUS. | [rule] | WITH | Critical REFLECTIONS, REMARKS, and | OBSERVATIONS, | [i]By[/i] M. BOILEAU, M. DACIER, [i]and[/i] M. BOIVIN. | [rule] | [i]The Muses sure[/i] LONGINUS [i]did inspire, | And blest their Critic with a Poet's Fire. | An ardent Judge, that Zealous in his Trust, | With Warmth gives Sentence, yet is always Just[/i]; | [i]Whose own Example strengthens all his Laws, | And is himself that great[/i] SUBLIME [i]he draws.[/i] | Essay on Criticism. | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed in the Year, MDCCXII. HALF-TITLES: p. 103: [rule] | [i]NEW[/i] | EPISTLES. | [rule] p. 145: [rule] | ODES, | EPIGRAMS, | AND OTHER | MISCELLANIES. | [rule] p.236: [rule] | SOME | Genuine Pieces | Written by | Monsr. [i]BOILEAU[/i] | Never yet Printed in any Edition of his | WORKS. | [rule]
- Comments:
- PAGINATION: [2], 1-168, [4], 169-189, [3], 1-267, [17] (pp.243-251 and p.261 mispaginated 143-151 and 161 respectively.) PLATES: Frontispiece (unsigned) CONTENTS: Second section of this volume, with a separate title page (dated 1712), contains prose (pp.1-267). Verse fragments of four lines or longer in this section have been recorded.
- Other matter:
- End matter: Contents pages (sig. R8v); Index (sig.S1-S8v); Errata (sig. S8v.)
- 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:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The works of Monsieur Boileau. Made English by several hands. [Vol II] [ECCO] [N25822]
- Publication Date:
- 1736
- ESTC No:
- N25822
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- Posthumous works of Monsieur Boileau [T143905]
- Publication Date:
- 1713
- ESTC No:
- T143905
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- 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:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- 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:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- E. Sanger
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for E. SANGER, and E. CURLL.'
- Publisher:
- Edmund Curll
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for E. SANGER, and E. CURLL.'
- Translated from:
- Nicolas Boileau Despréaux
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Young valiant hero thou whose sense sublime
- Page No:
- pp.1-11
- Poem Title:
- A Discourse to the King.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain great sir keen satire I disown
- Page No:
- pp.11-24
- Poem Title:
- Epistle I. To the King.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For what should I my sleeping muse awake
- Page No:
- pp.25-28
- Poem Title:
- Epistle II. To The Abbot Des Roches.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Yes Arnauld thou dost easily perceive
- Page No:
- pp.29-36
- Poem Title:
- Epistle III. To Monsieur Arnauld. Doctor of the Sorbonne.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain to praise thee is my muse prepared
- Page No:
- pp.37-48
- Poem Title:
- Epistle IV. To the King.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Born for a court and versed in every art
- Page No:
- pp.49-60
- Poem Title:
- Epistle V. To Monsieur De Guilleragues. Secretary of the Cabinet.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Yes yes Lamoignon with the town I'm tired
- Page No:
- pp.61-74
- Poem Title:
- Epistle VI. To Monsieur De Lamoignon, Attorney-General.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh with what art Racine dost thou inspire
- Page No:
- pp.75-82
- Poem Title:
- Epistle VII. To Monsieur Racine.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cease sir to conquer or I cease to write
- Page No:
- pp.83-90
- Poem Title:
- Epistle VIII. To the King.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cowper how foolish would that author be
- Page No:
- pp.91-102
- Poem Title:
- Epistle IX. To the Marquis de Seignelai. Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable The Lord Chancellor Cowper.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain my muse I bid you hold in vain
- Page No:
- pp.107-116
- Poem Title:
- Epistle X. To my Book.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thou as laborious as thy master kind
- Page No:
- pp.117-125
- Poem Title:
- Epistle XI. To my Gard'ner.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Learned sir you're right for all engaged in sin
- Page No:
- pp.126-143
- Poem Title:
- Epistle XII. To the Abbot Renaudot. On the Love of God.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What learned fury in my breast does reign
- Page No:
- pp.157-168
- Poem Title:
- An Ode On the Taking of Namur, Anno 1692.
- Attribution:
- Made English by Samuel Cobb, M.A. Late of Trinity-College, Cambridge
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- What fury what distraction blinds
- Page No:
- sigs.m*-[?m*2v?]
- Poem Title:
- An Ode, Written in the Year, 1656. On a Report, That Cromwell and the English were going to make War upon France.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A poor old wretch beneath the weight
- Page No:
- pp.169-170
- Poem Title:
- A Fable out of Aesop. The Old Man and Death.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In want and what's a greater curse
- Page No:
- p.170
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. The Grateful Debtor.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold in peace and war a monarch great
- Page No:
- p.171
- Poem Title:
- Verses to be put under the King's Busto, (made by the Famous Statuary M. Girardon,) the Year the Germans took Belgrade.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The holy maid whom in this piece you view
- Page No:
- p.172
- Poem Title:
- Verses to be put under Mademoiselle de Lamoignon's Picture.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How doubly sweet is Baville's air
- Page No:
- pp.173-174
- Poem Title:
- A Catch made at Baville, when Father Bourdaloue was there.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye partisans of Epicurus tribe
- Page No:
- p.174
- Poem Title:
- Verses to be put before an Allegorical Romance, wherein the whole Morality of the Stoics was explain'd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come Pradon and you Bonnecorse
- Page No:
- pp.175-176
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. To Messieurs Pradon and Bonnecorse, who both at the same time publish'd a Book of Scandal against me.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Yes I have said an Aesculapian sot
- Page No:
- p.175
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. To a Physician.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Three emperors as 'tis in story told
- Page No:
- p.176
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. To Monsieur Perrault. On his Books against the Ancients.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Did Perrault the assassin ever give
- Page No:
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. On Monsieur Perrault the Physician.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How comes it Perrault I would gladly know
- Page No:
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- Another on the same Subject.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With young Orante from the cradle bred
- Page No:
- pp.178-179
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet, upon a Cousin of mine that died very young, in the Hands of a Quack.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Clio complained upon a time
- Page No:
- pp.179-180
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. Occasion'd by some Verses that were read in the Academy against Homer and Virgil.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of all the pens which my poor rhymes molest
- Page No:
- p.180
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. Upon a Paultry Satire which the Abbot Cotin handed about under my Name.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This traveller from Paris used to run
- Page No:
- p.181
- Poem Title:
- Verses to be put under the Picture of Monsieur Tavernier, the famous Traveller.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why so much pains that like a lasting brand
- Page No:
- p.181
- Poem Title:
- Another against the same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let the self lover these strict lessons learn
- Page No:
- p.182
- Poem Title:
- Verses to put under the Picture of Monsieur de la Bruyere, before his Book, entitul'd, The Manners of the Age. The Author speaks.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With knowledge wit and eloquence adorned
- Page No:
- p.182
- Poem Title:
- Verses to be put under the Picture of the late Monsieur Hamon, Physician of Port-Royal.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain a thousand jealous wits
- Page No:
- pp.183-184
- Poem Title:
- Stanzas. To Monsieur Moliere, upon his Comedy, call'd, L' Ecole de Femmes, or, The School of Women, which several carpt at.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My friend Bilain as yesterday
- Page No:
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- Another.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While in his double elbow chair
- Page No:
- p.185
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. Against an Atheist.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Climene something has perplexed me
- Page No:
- p.186
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. To Climene.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hail king of horses noble Rosinante
- Page No:
- p.186
- Poem Title:
- A Tetrastic. On the Picture of Don Quixote's Horse Rosinante.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While the fierce beadle's brat does loudly bawl
- Page No:
- p.187
- Poem Title:
- Upon a Young Lawyer, the Son of a Country Beadle.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My friend Marullus I'm uneasy
- Page No:
- p.188
- Poem Title:
- On Marullus banter'd formerly in Phaleucian Verses.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Curse on the wretch whose rage to be a wit
- Page No:
- p.189
- Poem Title:
- Verses in Chapelain's Style, to be put at the end of his Poem of the Maid (of Orleans.)
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Their vast ambition to dethrone the gods
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What space a man can from a lofty rock
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hell at the noise of Neptune's fury rose
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He proudly mounts on his imperial car
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Like Mars amid the battle full of rage
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happy who near thee sighs alone for thee
- Page No:
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh prodigy oh rage incredible
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As when we view the waves by tempests swollen
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hold cruel mother drive the furies hence
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- See that thou art not born by too much heat
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- [no title]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Seven stars thou then before thee wilt espy
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On a black buckler these remorseless chiefs
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- p.43
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We passed at thy command with hasty steps
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- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cursed Hymen I from thee my life received
- Page No:
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To see them of such noble ardor full
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hector who saw them scattered on the shore
- Page No:
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
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- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thou the vile minister of those who long
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At the two ends of her two sleeves we see
- Page No:
- p.98; p.199
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- None has so nice a way as he to teach
- Page No:
- pp.107-108
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The poets' wars at Paris cease
- Page No:
- p.170
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To this come all the doctor's pious cares
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You choose so well you say your future wife
- Page No:
- pp.186-187
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Suppose her virtue may this shock endure
- Page No:
- pp.188-189
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- But marriage is a yoke the better still
- Page No:
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Heaven knows the weakness of his roving mind
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- p.194
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some may say I'm in the wrong to blame
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- p.198
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Richelieu in vain the famous Cid decried
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- p.200
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great prince for from this hour I'll call you great
- Page No:
- p.252
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Made English by Mr. Littlebury (p.237)
- Attributed To:
- Isaac Littlebury
- First Line:
- Now when grey time in his impartial course
- Page No:
- p.161 [i.e. 261]
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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