Crossword-Solution: BOILEAU 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Ill-fated, impious race! That blasphem’d the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it,--no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepid standard out Mark’d with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau!” It was these lines that raised the ire of Byron, who regarded them as an irreverent assault upon his favorite poet, Pope.

The man is rustic, illiterate; he never heard of Aristotle, he would be at a loss to distinguish between a trochee and a Titian, and if you mentioned Boileau to him would probably imagine you were talking of cookery.

Boileau, long ago, in the period of perukes and snuff-boxes, recognised him as the first articulate poet in the language; and if we measure him, not by priority of merit, but living duration of influence, not on a comparison with obscure forerunners, but with great and famous successors, we shall instal this ragged and disreputable figure in a far higher niche in glory’s temple than was ever dreamed of by the critic.

The other three, Tricesimæ, Quadriburgium, and Castra Herculis, or Heraclea, no longer subsist; but there is room to believe, that on the ground of Quadriburgium the Dutch have constructed the fort of Schenk, a name so offensive to the fastidious delicacy of Boileau.

But the same Fontenelle places his king above the divine Augustus; and the sage Boileau has not blushed to say, “Le destin a ses yeux n’oseroit balancer” Yet neither Augustus nor Louis XIV.