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.
325.
That in the captain’s but a cholerick word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Scene III
326. ‘Men are more eloquent than women made.’ ‘But women are more powerful to persuade.’
Amyntas, Prologue
327. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase.
Lacon, I
328. Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
Scenes from Clerical Life. Janet’s Repentance
329.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions!
Hamlet (King), Act IV, Scene V
330.
A Briton, even in love, should be
A subject, not a slave.
Poems founded on the Affections