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For these reasons for his almost unerring prescience in the discernment of contemporary merit and for his triumphant consolidation of the classical tradition Boileau must be reckoned as the earliest of that illustrious company of great critics which is one of the peculiar glories of French letters.
Alarms, anxieties of consciences, weak but virtuous, have always found me gentle, and almost resigned; the false scruples of hypocrites and libertines will never receive from me aught but disdain and contempt. The Verse of Berenice. Praises of Boileau. The King's Aversion to Satirical Writers. The Painter Le Brun. His Bacchus. The Waterbottle. The Pyramid of Jean Chatel Injurious to the Jesuits.
Thou hast not encountered, Master, in the Paradise of Poets, Messieurs Malherbe, De Balzac, and Boileau Boileau who spoke of thee as Ce poete orgueilleux trebuche de si haut! These gallant gentlemen, I make no doubt, are happy after their own fashion, backbiting each other and thee in the Paradise of Critics. What said M. de Balzac to M. Chapelain?
Boileau had undertaken the task of reconciling his friend with Port-Royal. Nicole had made no opposition, "not knowing what war was." M. Arnauld was intractable. Boileau one day made up his mind to take him a copy of Phedre, pondering on the way as to what he should say to him. "Shall this man," said he, "be always right, and shall I never be able to prove him wrong?
The sale of the provostship of Paris was abolished and a man of integrity, Étienne Boileau, appointed with adequate emoluments. So completely was this once venal office rehabilitated, that no seigneur regarded the post as beneath him. Boileau was wont to sleep in his clothes on a camp bed in the Châtelet to be in readiness at any hour, and often St.
Neither Persius nor Juvenal, Boileau nor Pope, bears any real resemblance to him. The two former were satirists in the modern sense; the two latter have caught what we may call the town side of Horace, but they are accomplished epigrammatists and rhetoricians, which he is not, and they entirely lack his strong love for the simple and the rural.
Witty writings, when directed to serve the good ends of virtue and religion, are like the lights hung out in a pharos, to guide the mariners safe through dangerous seas; but the brightness of those that are impious or immoral shines only to betray and lead men to destruction. Boileau. Has England been free from all seductions of this nature? Pope. No.
Each of the boys made for himself a war to his own liking, and when we had settled all the details of Armageddon, killed all our senior officers, handled a division apiece, and nearly torn the atlas in two in attempts to explain our theories, Boileau needs must lift up his voice above the clamour, and cry, "Anyhow it'll be the hell of a row!" in tones that carried conviction far down the staircase.
Taste continued to be governed by the precepts of Boileau and the French classical school. Poetry remained chiefly didactic and satirical, and satire in Pope's hands was more personal even than in Dryden's, and addressed itself less to public issues.
'Even in our flight from vice some virtue lies. FRANCIS. Horace, i. Epistles, I. 41. See vol. ii. p. 258. Mrs. Johnson died in 1752. See ante, i. 241, note 2. He wrote to Mr. Boileau, Art Poétique, chant iv. This is probably an errour either of the transcript or the press. Removes seems to be the word intended. See ante, i. 332, and post p. 360. See ante, p. 267. I have heard Dr.
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