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Boileau may be compared to the dog, whose sagacity is remarkable, as well as its fawning on its master, and its snarling at those it dislikes. If Boileau was too austere to admit the pliability of grace, he compensates by good sense and propriety. His copies of the ancients may be too servile: but, if a good translator deserves praise, Boileau deserves more.

Think of the talent that our two countries produced about this time: Marlborough, Villars, Mandrin, Turpin, Boileau, Dryden, Swift, Addison, Moliere, Racine, Jack Sheppard, and Louis Cartouche, all famous within the same twenty years, and fighting, writing, robbing a l'envi!

The nobles of the court gathered around his bed-side, and the king sent to make inquiries as to his condition. He arranged all his pecuniary affairs. Boileau was with him, and when he bade him farewell, he said, "I look on it as a happiness that I die before you."

A veneration for Shakespeare seems to be a part of your national religion, and the only part in which even your men of sense are fanatics. Pope. He who can read Shakespeare, and be cool enough for all the accuracy of sober criticism, has more of reason than taste. Boileau.

Then she wanted to embrace me, as if we were equals, but this I deprecated as much from aversion as from respect. La Fontaine. Boileau. Moliere. Corneille. Louis XIV.'s Opinion of Each of Them.

The oldest manuscript is one of Josephus, and others are of the fifth and sixth centuries; the amateurs of autography will be gratified in seeing letters from Henri IV to Gabrielle d'Estrée, and the writing of Francis I, Turenne, Madame de Maintenon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Racine, Corneille; Boileau, Bossuet, etc.

The letter is too long to transcribe, but it is a singular instance how genius can degrade itself when it has placed all its felicity on the varying smiles of those we call the great. Well might his friend Boileau, who had nothing of his sensibility nor imagination, exclaim, with his good sense, of the court: Quel séjour étranger, et pour vous et pour moi!

Long afterward, when he had reached manhood, this hardy and resolute man was so affected by the sound of wheels rattling over a bridge that he had to discipline himself by listening to the sound, in spite of his dread of it, in order to overcome his antipathy. The story told by Abbe Boileau of Pascal is very similar to that related of Peter.

I am justified in painting the manners of the times; the vices of Theodora form an essential feature in the reign and character of Justinian. 3. My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. Le Latin dans ses mots brave l'honnetete, says the correct Boileau, in a country and idiom more scrupulous than our own.

His manner is quite original, and peculiar to himself, though all the matter of his writings is borrowed from others. Pope. In that manner he has been imitated by my friend Mr. Prior. Boileau. He has, very successfully. Some of Prior's tales have the spirit of La Fontaine's with more judgment, but not, I think, with such an amiable and graceful simplicity. Pope.