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Paris and became an elementary teacher. He gradually acquired a reputation as a poet by his epistles, in which things are not called by their See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary names but are hinted at by elaborate periphrases. See also:

SUGAR

Sugar becomes " le miel americain que du suc See also:

des roseaux exprima 1'Africain." The publication (1769) of his See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of the Georgics of See also:

Virgil made him famous. See also:

VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE (1694–1778)

Voltaire recommended the poet for the next vacant See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in the See also:

Academy. He was at once elected a member, bait was not admitted until 1774 owing to the opposition of the See also:

king, who alleged that he was too See also:

young. In his Jardins, ou fart d'embellir See also:

les paysages (1782) he made See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good his pretensions as an See also:

ORIGINAL

original poet. In 1786 he made a See also:

JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey to See also:

Constantinople in the See also:

TRAIN (M. Eng. trayn or trayne, derived through Fr. from Late Lat. trahinare, to drag, draw, Lat. trahere, cf. trail, trace, ultimately from the same source)

train of the See also:

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador M. de See also:

Choiseul-See also:

GOUFFIER

Gouffier. Delille had become See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of Latin See also:

POETRY

poetry at the College de See also:

France, and See also:

abbot of See also:

SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint-Severin, when the outbreak of the Revolution reduced him to poverty. He See also:

PURCHASED

purchased his See also:

PERSONAL

personal safety by professing his adherence to revolutionary See also:

DOCTRINE

doctrine, but eventually quitted Paris, and retired to St See also:

Die, where he completed his translation of the Aeneid. He emigrated first to See also:

Basel and then to Glairesse in See also:

SWITZERLAND

Switzerland.

Here he finished his Homme des champs, and his poem on the Trois regnes de la nature. His next place of See also:

REFUGE

refuge was in See also:

Germany, where he composed his La Pitie; and finally, he passed some See also:

time in See also:

LONDON

London, chiefly employed in translating See also:

PARADISE (Gr. lrap6BEwos)

Paradise Lost. In 1802 he was able to return to Paris, where, although nearly See also:

BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

blind, he resumed his professorship and his See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair at the Academy, but lived in retirement. He fortunately did not outlive the See also:

VOGUE, EUGENE MELCHIOR, COMTE DE (1848- )

vogue of the descriptive poems which were his See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

province, and died on the 1st of May 1813. Delille See also:

LEFT

left behind him little See also:

PROSE

prose. His See also:

PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface to the translation of the Georgics is an able See also:

ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay, and contains many excellent hints on the See also:

art and difficulties of translation. He wrote the See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article " La Bruyere " in the Biographic universelle. The following is the See also:

list of his poetical See also:

WORKS

works:—Les Georgiques de Virgile, traduites en vers franYais (Paris, 1769, 1782, 1785, 1809); Les Jardins, en quatre chants (1780; new edition, Paris, 18oi); L'Homme des champs, ou les Georgiques francaises (See also:

STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg, 1802); Poesies fugitives (1802); Dithyrambe sur l'immortalite de l'&me, suivi du passage du Saint Gothard, poeme traduit de l'Apglais de Madame la duchesse de See also:

Devonshire (1802); La Pitie, poeme en quatre chants (Paris, 1802); L'Eneide de Virgile, traduite en vers See also:

FRANCAIS, ANTOINE, COUNT (1756-1836)

francais (4 vols., 1804) ; Le Paradis perdu (3 vols., 1804); L'Imagirtation, poeme en huit chants (2 vols., 18o6); Les trois regnes de la nature (2 vols., 18o8); La Conversation (1812). A collection given under the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Poesies diverses (18o1) was disavowed by Delille. His Euvres (16 vols.) were published in 1824. See Sainte-Beuve, Portraits ;itteraires, vol. ii.

End of Article: DELILLE, JACQUES (1738–1813)

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