Proverbial Wisdom
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
271.
He that is but able to express
No sense at all in several languages,
Will pass for learneder than he that’s known
To speak the strongest reason in his own.
Satire upon Human Learning, Pt I, line 65
272.
O woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!
Marmion, Can. VI, XXX
273.
What strong mysterious links enchain the heart,
To regions where the morn of life was spent.
The Sabbath, line 404
274. He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
Christian Morals, Pt I, XXXIV
275.
Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Epigrams
276.
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find;
Occasion, once past by, is bald behind.
Pyramus and Thisbe, XV