George Herbert
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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
wings
It is better to have wings then hornes.
mice
It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.
offended
None is offended but by himselfe.
tongue dry hundred
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
inheritance
Service is no Inheritance.
owing
Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.
spectacles
Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]
wenches young heed
Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman.
deities benefits arguing
The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.
fortunate
The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.
woods able rage
The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.
reason poor
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
tongue quills
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
thread
The thread breakes, where it is weakest.