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.
And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, First Day.
Night's black mantle covers all alike.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, First Day. Compare: "Come civil night,… with thy black mantle", William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2.
And reads, though running, all these needful motions.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, First Day. Compare: "Shine by the side of every path we tread / With such a lustre, he that runs may read", William Cowper, Tirocinium, line 79.
Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Heat considered as a Mode of Motion" (title of a treatise, 1863), John Tyndall.
'T is what you will,—or will be what you would.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Third Day.
Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Third Day. Compare: "The cattle upon a thousand hills", Psalm i.
Not that the earth doth yieldIn hill or dale, in forest or in field,A rarer plant.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Third Day. Compare: "Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields", Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
To man the earth seems altogetherNo more a mother, but a step-dame rather.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Third Day. Compare: "It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to him a kind parent or a merciless stepmother" Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book vii, Section 1.
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.
Which serves for cynosureTo all that sail upon the sea obscure.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Seventh Day.
Living from hand to mouth.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, First Day, Part iv.
The will for deed I doe accept.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, Third Day, Part ii. Compare: "You must take the will for the deed", Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii.
Only that he may conformTo tyrant custom.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, Third Day, Part ii. Compare: "The tyrant custom", William Shakespeare, Othello, act i. sc. 3, line 230.
Sweet grave aspect.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, Fourth Day, Book i. Compare: "That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin", William Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act iii, Scene 2; "With grave Aspect he rose", John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book ii, line 300.
I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Dialogue between Heraclitus and Democritus. 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.
Made no more bones.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— The Maiden Blush.
Thy Will for Deed I do accept.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week (1584), Third Day, Part II.
Soft carpet-knights all scenting musk and amber.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes (1578), Third Day, Part I.
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.
Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre; And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber, The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week (1584), Third Day, Part III.
Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578), Fourth Day, Book II.
Apoplexie, and Lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week. First Day, Part III. The Furies.
Only that he may conform To (Tyrant) customs.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week (1584), Third Day, Part II.
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.
