18 Famous Quotes by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
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About Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas was a French poet. A Huguenot, he served under Henry of Navarre. He is known as an epic poet. La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde was a hugely influential hexameral work, relating the creation of the world and the history of man. It was translated into many languages, including English, and helped inspire Milton's Paradise Lost. It was followed quickly by La Seconde Sepmaine which Du Bartas did not manage to finish before falling fatally ill.
As a member of Henry III of Navarre's court, he was a writer in the Gascon dialect of the Occitan language. His name in classical Occitan is Guilhčm de Sallusti deu Bartās and his main work in Occitan is an Entry written in French, Latin and Occitan in which three muses challenged each other in order to claim the honour of welcoming King Henry of Navarre and his wife Queen Marguerite de Valois at Henry's court of Nerac. In the end, the Gascon muses win the contest.
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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.
Fashion
Quotes, by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas , Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (second week, third day, pt. III)
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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,
Spiders
Quotes, by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas , Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--First Week--Sixth Day (l. 998)
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God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers,
So many fishes of so many features,
That in the waters we may see all Creatures;
Even all that on the earth is to be found,
As if the world were in deep waters drowned.
Fish
Quotes, by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas , Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (wk. I, day 5)
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Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut
Some cureless limb, before in use he put
His 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' infected part.
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,
Medicine
Quotes, by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas , Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--First Week--Sixth Day (l. 1,018)
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One doctor, singly like the sculler plies,
The patient struggles, and by inches dies;
But two physicians, like a pair of oars,
Waft him right swiftly to the Stygian shores.
Medicine
Quotes, by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas , Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--First Week--Sixth Day (l. 1,018)
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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.
Larks
Quotes, by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas , Source: Weekes and Workes (fifth day)
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