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
men good-man way
He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.
land way
Good land, evill way.
sweet way pleasure
I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.
way fame
There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
way ill neighbour
The way is an ill neighbour.
winter men way
The life of man is a winter way.
way may ill
Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
way
Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne.
science devil way
'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'
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.