THE WORKS OF MONSIEUR BOILEAU MADE ENGLISH BY SEVERAL HANDS. To which is prefixed his life by Mr. Des Maizeaux. (Tr. by J. Ozell) and some account of this translation by N. Rowe. 1712-13.
Roscommon's 'Essay on Translated Verse' is derived from Boileau's French 'Art de Poetique'. One of the 'correct' school. Pope and Addison were largely influenced by B. The former's 'Essay on Criticism' is inspired by him. Boileau himself was influenced by the 'De Arte Poetica' of Horace.
BONNOT DE CONDILLAC (ÉTIENNE). See Condillac.
BOOK OF THE DEAD. (PER-EM-HRU.)
'A collection of prayers and exorcisms composed at various times for the benefit of the pilgrim-soul in his journeys through Amente (the Egyptian Hades)'.
See Birch, Dr. Egypt's Place in Universal History. Vol. v. 1867. [Based on Lepsius' imperfect Turin Text. 1842.]
See also Article in Budge, E. A. Wallis. Dwellers on the Nile (chapter 9) 1885.
This work has been printed in full from MSS. in the British Museum. Ed. by E. A. W. Budge, with facsimiles trs. by Budge.
BOSSUET, JACQUES BENIGNE. b. 1612, d. 1704. French divine and eminent pulpit orator.
A DISCOURSE ON THE HISTORY OF THE WHOLE WORLD ... EXPLICATING THE CONTINUANCE OF RELIGION WITH THE CHANGES OF STATES AND EMPIRES, FROM THE CREATION TILL THE REIGN OF CHARLES THE GREAT. Faithfully Englished (1679). 1686.