Frases de William Drummond

William Drummond , poeta e historiador escocés.

✵ 13. diciembre 1585 – 4. diciembre 1649
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“What doth it serve to see sun's burning face,
And skies enamelled with both the Indies' gold?”

"What doth it Serve?"
Poems (1616)
Contexto: What doth it serve to see sun's burning face,
And skies enamelled with both the Indies' gold?
Or moon at night in jetty chariot roll'd,
And all the glory of that starry place?

“God never had a church but there, men say,
The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.
I doubted of this saw, till on a day
I westward spied great Edinburgh’s Saint Gyles.”

Posthumous Poems, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Section 4, Member 1, Subsection 1 .

“This Life, which seems so fair,
Is like a bubble blown up in the air
By sporting children's breath,
Who chase it every where”

This Life, which seems so fair http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/this-life-which-seems-so-fair-2/

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