by Nicolas Boileau Despreaux (1636 - 1711)
Qu' heureux est le Mortel
Language: French (Français)
Qu' heureux est le Mortel, qui, du monde ignoré, Vit content de soi-mesme en un coin retiré! Que l'amour de ce rien, qu'on nomme Renommé, N'a jamais enyvré d'une vaine fumée, Qui de sa liberté forme tout son plaisir, Et ne rend qu'a lui seul compte de son loisir!
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Confirmed with Œuvre de Boileau-Despréaux, nouvelle édition, Tome I, ed. by M. de Saint-Marc, Paris: "chez David & Durand," 1747, page 342. Appears in Epistres, no. VI, "à M. de Lamoignon, avocat général.".
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- by Nicolas Boileau Despreaux (1636 - 1711), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680 - 1747) , appears in Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott ; composed by Georg Philipp Telemann.
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