Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas Quotes
1544 – July 1590
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Not unlike the bear which bringeth forthIn the end of thirty dayes a shapeless birth;But after licking, it in shape she drawes,And by degrees she fashions out the pawes,The head, and neck, and finally doth bringTo a perfect beast that first deformed thing.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, First Day. Compare: "I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.
Hot and cold, and moist and dry.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Second Day. Compare: "For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry", John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book ii, line 898.
Turning our seed-wheat-kennel tares,To burn-grain thistle, and to vaporie darnel,Cockle, wild oats, rough burs, corn-cumbringTares.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, First Day, Part iii. Compare: "Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn", William Shakespeare, King Lear, act iv. sc. 4.
My lovely living boy,My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: "My fair son! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world", William Shakespeare, King John, act iii. sc. 4.
Not unlike the bear which bringeth forth In the end of thirty dayes a shapeless birth; But after licking, it in shape she drawes, And by degrees she fashions out the pawes, The head, and neck, and finally doth bring To a perfect beast that first deformed thing.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578), First Week, First Day. Compare: "I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.
The world's a stage where God's omnipotence,His justice, knowledge, love, and providenceDo act the parts.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, First Day. Compare: "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act ii. Scene 7.
Mercy and justice, marching cheek by joule.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, First Day.
What is well done is done soon enough.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, First Day.
And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, First Day.
From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,If England to itself do rest but true", William Shakespeare, King John, Act v. Sc. 7.
Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Flames in the forehead of the morning sky", John Milton, Lycidas, line 168.
With tooth and nail.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Second Day.
'T is what you will,—or will be what you would.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Third Day.
These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Sixth Day. Compare: "Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes", William Shakespeare, Richard III, act v. sc. 3.
Even as a surgeon, minding off to cutSome cureless limb,—before in ure he putHis violent engins on the vicious member,Bringeth his patient in a senseless slumber,And grief-less then (guided by use and art),To save the whole, sawes off th' infested part.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Sixth Day.
Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Sixth Day. Compare: "Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd", Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, Book xvi, line 267.
In the jaws of death.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, First Day, Part iv. Compare: "Out of the jaws of death", William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act iii. Sc. 4.
Did thrust as now in others' corn his sickle.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, Second Day, Part ii. Compare: "Never thrust your own sickle into another’s corn", Publius Syrus, Maxim 593.
Will change the pebbles of our puddly thoughtTo orient pearls.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, Third Day, Part i. Compare: "Now morn, her rosy steps in th’ eastern clime, Advancing, sow’d the earth with orient pearl", John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book v, line 1.; "Orient pearls", William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act iv. sc. 1.
Who well lives, long lives; for this age of oursShould not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: " A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,—by deeds, not years", Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Pizarro, Act iv, Scene 1.
Through thick and thin, both over hill and plain.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, Fourth Day, Book iv. Compare: "Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush", Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book iii, Canto i, Stanza 17.
Weakened and wasted to skin and bone.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, Fourth Day, Book iv. Compare: "Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can’t bear it", John Byrom, Epigram on Two Monopolists.
These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, First Week, Sixth Day.
Or (almost) like a Spider, who, confin'd In her Web's centre, shakt with every winde, Moves in an instant, if the buzzing Flie Stir but a string of her Lawn Canopie.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, First Week, Sixth Day, line 998.
The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer I neer my Deer; Then stooping thence (seeming her fall to rew) Adieu (she saith) adieu, deer Deer, adieu.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Weekes and Workes, Fifth Day.
Who well lives, long lives: for this age of ours Should not be numbered by years, daies and hours.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weeks and Workes, Second Week, Fourth Day, Book II.
The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love and providence, Do act the parts.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, First Week, First Day; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
I take the world to be but as a stage, Where net-maskt men doo play their personage.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes. Dialogue Between Heraclitus and Democritus. "The world is a stage; each plays his part, and receives his portion." Found in Winschooten's Seeman (1681). Bohn's Collection, 1857. Juvenal, Satires, III. 100. (Natio comœda est.); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, First Week, Part I. Sixth day, line 1,057.
