Robert Herrick citations

Robert Herrick est un poète anglais du XVIIe siècle. Il est connu pour être l'inventeur de la première émoticône ; bien que cette paternité soit remise en doute.

✵ 24. août 1591 – 1674
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Robert Herrick: Citations en anglais

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.”

Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"To the Virgins to Make Much of Time". Compare: "Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time", Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book ii. canto xii. stanza 75. ; "Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered", Wisdom of Solomon, ii. 8.
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Contexte: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun,
The higher he's a-getting
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.

“I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.”

Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"The Amber Bead" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb", Francis Bacon, Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100.
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“Then while time serves, and we are but decaying.
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.”

Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"Corinna's Going a Maying" http://books.google.com/books?id=2epaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Then+while+time+serves+and+we+are+but+decaying+come+my+Corinna+come+let's+goe+a+maying%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage.
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“You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.”

Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"Love Me Little, Love Me Long". Compare: "Love me little, love me long", Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, Act iv; "Me love you long time", 2 Live Crew, "Me So Horny" (sampled from the Stanley Kubrick film, Full Metal Jacket).
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“Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.”

Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve".
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“Night makes no difference 'twixt the Priest and Clerk;
Joan as my Lady is as good i' the dark.”

Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"No Difference i' th' Dark".
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“Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.”

Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
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“Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.”

Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"Sorrows Succeed". Compare: "One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, So fast they follow", William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 7.
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“Tis sin,
Nay, profanation to keep in.”

Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
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“Some asked me where the rubies grew,
And nothing I did say;
But with my finger pointed to
The lips of Julia.”

Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls".
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“Before man's fall the rose was born,
St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;
But for man's fault then was the thorn
Without the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.”

Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"The Rose" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Flower of all hue, and without thorn the rose", John Milton, Paradise Lost, book iv. line 256.; "Every rose has it's thorn", Poison, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn".
Hesperides (1648)

“Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.”

Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"Seek and Find". Compare: "Nil tam difficilest quin quærendo investigari possiet" (transalted as "Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking"), Terence, Heautontimoroumenos, iv. 2, 8.
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“A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.”

Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"Delight in Disorder".
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