Nicolas Boileau
Nicolas Boileau
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic...
dinner forget fresh heart worth
Take fresh heart and never forget that a warmed-up dinner is worth nothing at all.
dinner eating
A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
time moments draws
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
exalted light rhyme treating whether
Whether one is treating a light or an exalted subject, let the sense and the rhyme always agree.