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
wine men laughing
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
wine tables creatures
Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.
wine knows
You cannot know wine by the barrell.
wine
Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.
wine cost
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
wine enemy firsts
Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]
wine
Wine ever paies for his loding.
wine tables
To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.
wine fishing pot
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
sweet wine sweet-wine
Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.
wine old-friends provision
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
wine taste fruit
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.
wine bottles doe
The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
pain wine body
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?