A Collection of the Proverbs of All Nations: Compared, Explained, and IllustratedWarren F. Draper, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... Greek literature , if our conception of Greek men and Greek women had been formed by the contemplation of figures such as those of Chinese art ? Would any pulse have throbbed at the Labdacidan tale had the des- cendants of Labdacus ...
... Greek literature , if our conception of Greek men and Greek women had been formed by the contemplation of figures such as those of Chinese art ? Would any pulse have throbbed at the Labdacidan tale had the des- cendants of Labdacus ...
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... Greeks held that " When the lamp is removed all women are alike . ” 3 differ on that point , but all agree that " The night Opinions may Shows stars and women in a better light . " Hence the Italian warning , to choose " Neither jewel ...
... Greeks held that " When the lamp is removed all women are alike . ” 3 differ on that point , but all agree that " The night Opinions may Shows stars and women in a better light . " Hence the Italian warning , to choose " Neither jewel ...
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... Greek poet Hesiod , who has a line to this effect : " Marry , in preference to all other women , one who dwells near thee . " But a more specific meaning has been assigned to the English proverb by Fuller , and after him by Ray and ...
... Greek poet Hesiod , who has a line to this effect : " Marry , in preference to all other women , one who dwells near thee . " But a more specific meaning has been assigned to the English proverb by Fuller , and after him by Ray and ...
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... ( Greek ) . A carrion kite will never make a good hawk.4 An inch o ' a nag is worth a span o ' an aver.- Scotch . A kindly aver will never make a good nag . - Scotch . An aver is a cart horse . One leg of a lark is worth the whole body of ...
... ( Greek ) . A carrion kite will never make a good hawk.4 An inch o ' a nag is worth a span o ' an aver.- Scotch . A kindly aver will never make a good nag . - Scotch . An aver is a cart horse . One leg of a lark is worth the whole body of ...
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... ( Greek ) . " He that is absent will not be the heir " ( Latin ) .1 " Absence is love's foe : far from the eyes , far from the heart " ( Spanish ) .2 " The dead and the absent have no friends " ( Spanish ) . " The absent are always in the ...
... ( Greek ) . " He that is absent will not be the heir " ( Latin ) .1 " Absence is love's foe : far from the eyes , far from the heart " ( Spanish ) .2 " The dead and the absent have no friends " ( Spanish ) . " The absent are always in the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 63 - tis the soul of peace : Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit : The first true gentleman, that ever breathed.
Página 92 - This, however, was afterwards of use to me, the impression continuing on my mind; so that often when I was tempted to buy some unnecessary thing, I said to myself, Don't give too much for the whistle ; and I saved my money.
Página 57 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars...
Página 135 - He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
Página 57 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
Página 14 - Marriage is a desperate thing. The Frogs in JEsop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some Water, but they would not leap into the Well, because they could not get out again.
Página 209 - A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.
Página 114 - said he ; " you that have lived sae lang in Zetland, to risk the saving of a drowning man ? Wot ye not, if you bring him to life again, he will be sure to do you some capital injury ? * — Come, Master Mordaunt, bear a hand to what's mair to the purpose.
Página 216 - Well then, quoth Master More, how say you in this matter ? What think ye to be the cause of these shelves and flats that stop up Sandwich haven ? Forsooth, Sir, quoth he, I am an old man ; I think that Tenterton steeple is the cause of Goodwin sands. For I am an old man, Sir...