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.
409.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
On Roscommon’s Translation of De Arte Poetica
410.
Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said,
This is my own, my native land ?
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d,
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d,
From wandering on a foreign strand?
The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Can. VI, I
411. Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
Aesop, Pt I (Aesop), Act IV, Scene II
412. The course of true love never did run smooth.
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander), Act I, Scene I
413. He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude, and enjoy himself independent of its favour.
Spectator, No. 554
414. Men’s words are ever bolder than their deeds.
Piccolomini, Act I, Scene IV