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.
Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, Third Day, Part i. Compare: "As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Section 2, Membrane 2, Subsection 2.
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.
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.
Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Report of fashions in proud Italy, Whose manners still our apish nation Limps after in base imitation", William Shakespeare, Richard II, act ii. sc. 1.
From north to south, from east to west.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Second Day. Compare: "From north to south, from east to west", William Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale, act i. sc. 2.
For where's the state beneath the firmamentThat doth excel the bees for government?
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Fifth Day, Part i. Compare: "So work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom", William Shakespeare, Henry V, act i. sc. 3.
A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Sixth Day.
There is no theam more plentifull to scanThan is the glorious goodly frame of man.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Sixth Day. Compare: "Expatiate free o’er all this scene of man;
Or almost like a spider, who, confin'dIn her web's centre, shakt with every winde,Moves in an instant if the buzzing flieStir but a string of her lawn canapie.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— First Week, Sixth Day. Compare: "Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side", John Davies, The Immortality of the Soul.
Living from hand to mouth.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, First Day, Part iv.
Dog, ounce, bear, and bull,Wolfe, lion, horse.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, First Day, Part iii. Compare: "Lion, bear, or wolf, or bull", William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 1.
Yielding more wholesome food than all the messesThat now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, First Day, Part i. Compare: "Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses", John Milton, L'Allegro, line 85.
In every hedge and ditch both day and nightWe fear our death, of every leafe affright.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, First Day, Part iii. Compare: "The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies", William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act iii. Sc. 1.
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.
Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii.
Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii.
Out of the book of Natur's learned brest.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: "The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves", Paracelsus, 1490–1541. (From the Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, vol. xviii. p. 234.).
There is no Theam more plentiful to scan, Then is the glorious goodly Frame of Man.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, First Week, Sixth Day, line 421.
Living from hand to mouth.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week, First Day, Part IV.
Did thrust (as now) in others' corn his sickle.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week (1584), Second 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.
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.
Night's black mantle covers all alike.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, First Week, First Day, line 562.
Out of the book of Nature's learned breast.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week (1584), Fourth Day, Book II, line 566
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.
