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18 Quotes for 'Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas' in the Database.
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My lovely living Boy,
My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,
Topic: Childhood
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--Second Week, Fourth Day (bk. II)
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Did thrust (as now) in other's corn his sickle.
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,
Topic: Contention
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--Second Week, Second Day (pt. II)
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Thy Will for Deed I do accept.
Topic: Deeds
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (second week, third day, pt. II)
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Apoplexic, and Lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
Topic: Disease
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (pt. III, The Furies), second week, first day
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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.
Topic: Fashion
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (second week, third day, pt. III)
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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.
Topic: Fish
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (wk. I, day 5)
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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.
Topic: Larks
Source: Weekes and Workes (fifth day)
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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,
Topic: Medicine
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.
Topic: Medicine
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--First Week--Sixth Day (l. 1,018)
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Night's black Mantle covers all alike.
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,
Topic: Night
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--First Week--First Day (l. 562)
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Living from hand to mouth.
Topic: Poverty
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (second Week, first day, pt. IV)
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One must be poor to know the luxury of living.
Topic: Poverty
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (second Week, first day, pt. IV)
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With tooth and nail.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (first week, second day)
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Through thick and thin, both over Hill and Plain.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (second week, fourth day, bk. IV)
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Made no more bones.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: The Maiden Blush
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As leopard feels at home with leopard.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Source: The Maiden Blush
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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,
Topic: Spiders
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--First Week--Sixth Day (l. 998)
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Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
Topic: Wives
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (fourth day, bk. II)
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