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.
373.
Not ten yoke of oxen
Have the power to draw us
Like a woman’s hair.
The Saga of King Olaf
374.
’Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Another thing to fall.
Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Sc. I
375.
A man loveth more tenderlie
The thing that he hath bought most dere.
Romaunt of the Rose, line 2737
376. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Essay L, On Studies
377. Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
Letter to Comitess of Bute.
378.
A Briton, even in love, should be
A subject, not a slave.
Poems founded on the Affections