George Herbert
George Herbert
George Herbertwas a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skilful and important British devotional lyricist."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 April 1593
taken
Citties are taken by the eares.
taken men tongue
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
taken foxes lions
Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.
taken language ill
There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
taken stranger fear-of-love
Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.
taken fishes
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
stupid taken science
Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.
taken literature holes
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
drew dust guilty love soul
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.
dog vain bark
An old dog barks not in vain.
calendars
Death keeps no calendar.
hath
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
eyes hundred seller
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
delight sacrifice sermon turn verse
A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice