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
bounty
To buy deare is not bounty.
stores reviews
To review ones store is to mow twice.
valor valour
Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. [Valor that parleys is near yielding.]
honour
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
chimneys
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
woods weak
Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.
live-well wells
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
half woods
Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]
brightness refuse
Money refused loose its brightness.
stealing sleeves geese
The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.
numbers good-company company
Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.
girdles
All keyes hang not on one girdle.
beauty proportion qualities relation separate
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
aware becomes gives himself human individual others role thus
What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.