Posthumous works of Monsieur Boileau [N36267]
- DMI number:
- 1168
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1736
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- N36267
- Shelfmark:
- [NLS] D.N.S.628
- Full Title:
- POSTHUMOUS | WORKS | OF | MONSIEUR [i] BOILEAU, | VIZ. [/i] | [two columns] [column 1] I. A SATIRE upon EQUIVOCATION, against the [i] Jesuits. [/i] | II. Seventeen New EPIGRAMS. | III. The HEROES [i] Romances. [i/] A Dialogue after the Manner of LUCIAN. | IV. A Discourse upon the [i] Style of Inscriptions. [/i] | V. LETTERS to M. RACINE, M. LE VERRIER, &c. | VI. Three New Reflections upon LONGINUS. [/column 1] | [column 2] VII. A Critical Dispute between Monsieur BOILEAU, M. HUET, Bp. of [i] Avranches, [/i] and M. LE CLERC ; concerning the SUBLIMITY of this Passage in [i] Genesis ; And God said, Let there be Light : And there was Light. [/i] Chap. i. 3. | VIII. M. LE VERRIER's Speech to the [i] French [/i] Academy, upon the Death of M. BOILEAU. [/column 2] | [rule] | Made [i] English [/i] by Several Hands. | [rule] | The SECOND EDITION. | [double rule] | [i] LONDON: [/i] | Printed and sold by W. SHROPSHIRE, against the Duke | of [i] Grafton's [/i] in the [i] New Bond-Street [/i] | and EDWARD | LITTLETON, at the [i] Mitre [/i] against St. [i] Dunstan's [/i] | Church in [i] Fleet-Street. [/i] M.DCC.XXXVI.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of translations/imitations
- Format:
- Octavo
- Pagination:
- see comments box
- Comments:
- Pagination: [i-iv], v-ix (mispaginated as i-v), x-xi, viii-xi, xiv-xv, xii (mispaginated as xxii), xiii, xviii-xix, xvi-xvii, xxii-xxiii, xx-lxxxiv, lxxxvii-cii, ci-cii ci-cii [not duplicates], ciii-clxviii, [16], [1]-170, [171-172]
- Other matter:
- Preface End matter: table of contents
- Title:
- Posthumous works of Monsieur Boileau [T143905]
- Publication Date:
- 1713
- ESTC No:
- T143905
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- 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:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Sold by:
- Edward Littleton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed and sold by W. SHROPSHIRE, against the Duke of Grafton's in the New Bond-Street and EDWARD LITTLETON, at the Mitre against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street.'
- Sold by:
- W. Shropshire
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed and sold by W. SHROPSHIRE, against the Duke of Grafton's in the New Bond-Street and EDWARD LITTLETON, at the Mitre against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street.'
- Translated from:
- Nicolas Boileau Despréaux
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The man thou seest was to the law
- Page No:
- p. x
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- This peaceful man who does the canvas stain
- Page No:
- p.xvi
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wife to a man of candor sweetness ease
- Page No:
- p. xvii
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas sacred satire first inspired my song
- Page No:
- p. xxii
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My sire to business threescore years applied
- Page No:
- pp. xx-xxi
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of you my verse if any should enquire
- Page No:
- pp. xxi-xxii
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- You think the public will be proud to read
- Page No:
- pp. xxiii-xxiv
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Midst the soft pleasures of fraternal peace
- Page No:
- p. xlv
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If at my years said he I turn one page
- Page No:
- pp. xlvi-xlvii
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The prelate saw their fall with ghastful eyes
- Page No:
- pp. l-lii
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Riches I saw must be acquired by sweat
- Page No:
- pp. lix-lx
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The reader now no longer can endure
- Page No:
- p. lxiii
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Even I whose merit's so much less than thine
- Page No:
- p. lxvi
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- But now that I am old and on my head
- Page No:
- p. cviii
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If my past writings for my present plead
- Page No:
- p.cviii-cix
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell them by chance I in my greener age
- Page No:
- p. cx
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- False teachers next in numerous crowds arise
- Page No:
- pp. cxv-cxvi
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The poets' wars at Paris cease
- Page No:
- pp. cxxi-cxxii
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Right when I undertook to prove
- Page No:
- pp. cxl-cxli
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fathers in god whom I revere
- Page No:
- pp. clxviii-clxix
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- But halt my pen and thou my presence quit
- Page No:
- pp. cl-cli
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Equivocation of infernal kind
- Page No:
- pp. [1]-20
- Poem Title:
- A Satire against Equivocation and Mental Reservation, wherein the author attacks the loose principles of the Jesuits.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Shake off the error that obscures your view
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mean while the father full of dreadful care
- Page No:
- p. 62
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mean time by mighty gusts a humid mountain
- Page No:
- pp. 74-75
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He that can put a bridle on the waves
- Page No:
- p. 77
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mistake not fathers read it once again
- Page No:
- pp. 81-82
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. On my Brothers Book, Intitled, Historia Flagellantium , sive de recto & perverso usu flagorum apud Christianos; i.e. The History of Scourging, or an Account of the good and bad use of it amongst Christians.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To send me madam in this picture here
- Page No:
- p. 82
- Poem Title:
- To the President * * * Lady, who sent me the Picture of Father Bourdaloue.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come philosophers come you that boast in your learning
- Page No:
- p. 83
- Poem Title:
- A Drinking Song made at 17 Years of Age, having just finish'd my Course of Philosophy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Brebeuf in well deserving lines
- Page No:
- p. 84
- Poem Title:
- A Burlesque Parodie of the first Ode of Pindar, in Praise of M. Perrault.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The tuneful sisters at Apollo's call
- Page No:
- p. 84
- Poem Title:
- On Homer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sworn foe to sleep I am and many a time
- Page No:
- p. 86
- Poem Title:
- A Riddle.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The pride and honour of the Gallic stage
- Page No:
- pp. 86
- Poem Title:
- Verses to put under the picture of M. Racine.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When with stiff air and awkward grace
- Page No:
- pp. 86-87
- Poem Title:
- On the Poet S--- reciting his own Verses.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Paulus the famous quack renowned afar
- Page No:
- p. 87
- Poem Title:
- An Imitation of Martial.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis said that Juno Jupiter and Mars
- Page No:
- pp. 87-88
- Poem Title:
- On Monsieur Perrault.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In charming infancy's disguise
- Page No:
- pp. 88-89
- Poem Title:
- Verses to put under the Picture of the Duke of Maine, as yet a Child, who had publish'd a Volume of Letters with his Effigies prefix'd, in the garb of Apollo, with a Crown on his head.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When in the senate honest Paul
- Page No:
- p. 89
- Poem Title:
- On the Speech of a Magistrate, who inveigh'd against Sollicitors at Law.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The poet Boileau's picture here you see
- Page No:
- p. 90
- Poem Title:
- On the Speech of a Magistrate, who inveigh'd against Sollicitors at Law.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Six clocks two watches to prepare
- Page No:
- p. 90
- Poem Title:
- On One that delighted in Clock-work.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Yes thou mayst apoplexies cure
- Page No:
- p. 91
- Poem Title:
- On the Waters of Bourbon, which when the Author was drinking, an indifferent Poet shew'd him some of his Verses. He addresses himself to the Well.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My rhyme unforced attends to reasons call
- Page No:
- pp. 91-92
- Poem Title:
- Upon my Picture. My Friend M. Le Verrier, wrote the Four following Verses under my Picture, engraven by M. Drevet, making me speak thus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thanks to the mighty Phidias of our age
- Page No:
- p. 92
- Poem Title:
- On a Marble Busto of the Author, made by Mons. Girardon chief Statuary to the King.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And dost thou music think to charm
- Page No:
- pp. 96-99
- Poem Title:
- Prologue. Poetry and Music.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thou charming scene whom Flora's powers adorn
- Page No:
- pp. 101-102
- Poem Title:
- A Complaint against the Tuileries.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Or in cold couplets careless of the fair
- Page No:
- p. 102
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who acts sincerely as my laws require
- Page No:
- pp. 106-107
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great prince for from this hour I'll call you great
- Page No:
- pp.136-137
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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