Posthumous works of Monsieur Boileau [N36267]

DMI number:

1168

Aliases

Works of Boileau

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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

Related Miscellanies

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

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Another Edition of

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Related People

Sold by:

Edward Littleton

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Absolute (100%)

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'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

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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

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The man thou seest was to the law

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p. x

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This peaceful man who does the canvas stain

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p.xvi

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Wife to a man of candor sweetness ease

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Twas sacred satire first inspired my song

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My sire to business threescore years applied

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pp. xx-xxi

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Of you my verse if any should enquire

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pp. xxi-xxii

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You think the public will be proud to read

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Midst the soft pleasures of fraternal peace

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p. xlv

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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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The prelate saw their fall with ghastful eyes

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Riches I saw must be acquired by sweat

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The reader now no longer can endure

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p. lxiii

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Even I whose merit's so much less than thine

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p. lxvi

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But now that I am old and on my head

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p. cviii

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If my past writings for my present plead

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p.cviii-cix

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Tell them by chance I in my greener age

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p. cx

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False teachers next in numerous crowds arise

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pp. cxv-cxvi

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The poets' wars at Paris cease

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pp. cxxi-cxxii

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Right when I undertook to prove

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pp. cxl-cxli

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Fathers in god whom I revere

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pp. clxviii-clxix

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But halt my pen and thou my presence quit

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pp. cl-cli

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Equivocation of infernal kind

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pp. [1]-20

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A Satire against Equivocation and Mental Reservation, wherein the author attacks the loose principles of the Jesuits.

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Shake off the error that obscures your view

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p.58

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Mean while the father full of dreadful care

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p. 62

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Mean time by mighty gusts a humid mountain

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pp. 74-75

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He that can put a bridle on the waves

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p. 77

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Mistake not fathers read it once again

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pp. 81-82

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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.

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To send me madam in this picture here

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p. 82

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To the President * * * Lady, who sent me the Picture of Father Bourdaloue.

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Come philosophers come you that boast in your learning

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p. 83

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A Drinking Song made at 17 Years of Age, having just finish'd my Course of Philosophy.

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Brebeuf in well deserving lines

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p. 84

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A Burlesque Parodie of the first Ode of Pindar, in Praise of M. Perrault.

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The tuneful sisters at Apollo's call

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p. 84

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On Homer.

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Sworn foe to sleep I am and many a time

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p. 86

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A Riddle.

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The pride and honour of the Gallic stage

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pp. 86

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Verses to put under the picture of M. Racine.

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When with stiff air and awkward grace

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pp. 86-87

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On the Poet S--- reciting his own Verses.

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Paulus the famous quack renowned afar

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p. 87

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An Imitation of Martial.

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Tis said that Juno Jupiter and Mars

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pp. 87-88

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On Monsieur Perrault.

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In charming infancy's disguise

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pp. 88-89

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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.

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When in the senate honest Paul

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p. 89

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On the Speech of a Magistrate, who inveigh'd against Sollicitors at Law.

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The poet Boileau's picture here you see

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p. 90

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On the Speech of a Magistrate, who inveigh'd against Sollicitors at Law.

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Six clocks two watches to prepare

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p. 90

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On One that delighted in Clock-work.

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Yes thou mayst apoplexies cure

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p. 91

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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.

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My rhyme unforced attends to reasons call

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pp. 91-92

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Upon my Picture. My Friend M. Le Verrier, wrote the Four following Verses under my Picture, engraven by M. Drevet, making me speak thus.

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Thanks to the mighty Phidias of our age

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p. 92

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On a Marble Busto of the Author, made by Mons. Girardon chief Statuary to the King.

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And dost thou music think to charm

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pp. 96-99

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Prologue. Poetry and Music.

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Thou charming scene whom Flora's powers adorn

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pp. 101-102

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A Complaint against the Tuileries.

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Or in cold couplets careless of the fair

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p. 102

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Who acts sincerely as my laws require

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pp. 106-107

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

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pp.136-137

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