Authority Cited: Boileau
Author name and dates: Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711)
BKG Bio-tweet: French poet, critic; educated in theology, law; inheritance allowed literary efforts; SJ quotes French phrases in etymologies
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Boileau cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, no Boileau cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Boileau is referred to in Pope, Dryden, and Prior quotations.]
Oeuvres poëtiques de Nicolas Boileau Despréaux. Avec les eclaircissemens historiques de l'édition in folio, abregés, 1730, A Londres: chez J. Brotherton, à L'Enseigne de la Bible dans Cornhill; & P. Dunoyer, à la tête D'Erasme dans le Strand [BKG Note: the edition used by SJ is unknown]
Author name and dates: Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711)
BKG Bio-tweet: French poet, critic; educated in theology, law; inheritance allowed literary efforts; SJ quotes French phrases in etymologies
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Boileau cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, no Boileau cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Boileau is referred to in Pope, Dryden, and Prior quotations.]
Oeuvres poëtiques de Nicolas Boileau Despréaux. Avec les eclaircissemens historiques de l'édition in folio, abregés, 1730, A Londres: chez J. Brotherton, à L'Enseigne de la Bible dans Cornhill; & P. Dunoyer, à la tête D'Erasme dans le Strand [BKG Note: the edition used by SJ is unknown]
- Satire I, line 119; bay (Inexact quote, perhaps from memory. Dict.: Innocence est aux abboins; text: l'Innocence aux abois.)
- Satire VI, Description des Embarras de Paris, line 119; cockney (text and Dict.: Paris est pour un riche un pais de Cocagne.)
- Boileau (no work cited);