Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a poet Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas was a Gascon Huguenot courtier and poet. Trained as a doctor of law, he served in the court of Henri de Navarre for most of his career. Du Bartas was celebrated across sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe for his divine poetry, particularly L'Uranie (1574), Judit (1574), La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578), and La Seconde Semaine (1584-1603).
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.
There is no Theam more plentifull to scan,
Then is the glorious goodly frame of Man.
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.
Night's black Mantle covers all alike.
Apoplexie and lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.
And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
The will for deed I doe accept.
A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.
For where's the State beneath the Firmament,
That doth excell the Bees for Government?
The world's a stage where God's omnipotence,
His justice, knowledge, love, and providence
Do act the parts.
In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright.
What is well done is done soon enough.
Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion.
I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.