On the lessons in proverbs, 5 lectures |
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On the lessons in proverbs, 5 lectures Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) Visualització completa - 1854 |
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adduced affirm Alliteration altogether appears Arabic proverb better birth BISHOP OF OXFORD black camel called carcase Catalan certainly CHARLES KINGSLEY Christian collection compared contain conviction Coriolanus devil divine doubt eagles Edition embodied English evil existence express Extremes meet faith French gathered German proverb God's Greek proverbs heart Heidelberg tun honour Ibycus Italian Italian proverb Italians say Jeremy Taylor land languages Latin lecture leonine verses lessons lips lives Lord man's maxims men's modern morality of proverbs mouth multitude namely nation never observe Octavo oftentimes once ourselves outward pass perhaps Persian Plautus poetry popular present proclaims quam quod racter regard rhyme rich RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Scripture sede selfish sense shame shape slight sometimes Spaniards Spanish Spanish proverb speaks sphere spirit sufficient thee things thou thyself tions true truth utterance verbs voice warning wisdom witty word
Passatges populars
Pàgina 116 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteemst the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Pàgina 109 - ... come, he will send. There are others of the same family, as the following : The devil's meal is half bran ; or all bran, as the Italians still more boldly proclaim it;* unrighteous gains are sure to disappoint the getter ; the pleasures of sin, even in this present time, are largely dashed with its pains. And this? He had need of a long spoon that eats with the devil...
Pàgina 77 - ... are given, Sound, healthy children of the God of heaven, Are cheerful as the rising sun in May. What do we gather hence but firmer faith That every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath ? That virtue and the faculties within Are vital, — and that riches are akin To fear, to change, to cowardice and death...
Pàgina 37 - Keep off, or you'll smutch me /"* the Spaniards, The raven cried to the crow, "Avaunt, blackamoor ;"f the Germans, One ass nicknames another, " Long-ears /"J while it must be owned there is a certain originality in the Catalan version of the proverb : Death said to the man with his throat cut, "How ugly you look.
Pàgina 10 - Arabs, of a man whose good luck seems never to forsake him, so that from the very things which would be another man's ruin, he extricates himself not merely without harm, but with profit and with credit. Of such a one they say : Fling him into the Nile, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
Pàgina 23 - I shall have occasion hereafter to mention, a Spanish scholar was able to make to the collected proverbs, so numerous before, of Spain. Nor do there want other indications of the like kind. Thus, the editor of very far the best modern collection of German proverbs, records this one, which is found, as he affirms, in no preceding collection, and which he himself never heard but once, and then from the lips of an aged lay servitor of a monastery in the Black Forest : Offend one monk, and the lappets...
Pàgina 102 - It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Pàgina 3 - They say so," is half a liar ; here is the better word with which they may arm themselves, who count It a primal duty to close their ears against all such unauthenticated rumours to the discredit of their brethren. The noblest vengeance is to forgive ; here is the godlike proverb on the manner in which wrongs should be recompensed : He who cannot revenge himself is weak, he who will not is vile,* here is the devilish.
Pàgina 117 - Muraille blanche, papier des sots. Add further, a few which occupy two lines : Argue consultum, te diliget ; argue stultum, Avertet vultum, nee te dimittet inultum. Balnea cornici non prosunt, nee meretrici ; Nee meretrix munda, nee cornix alba fit unda.
Pàgina 84 - Arabic proverb, as it appears to me, other than a very solemn one, being far deeper than at first sight it might seem : Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history — a leaf which shall once be turned back to again, that it may be seen what was written there ; and that whatever was written may be read out in the hearing of all. And among the proverbs having to do with a prudent ordering of our lives from the very first, this Spanish seems well worthy to be adduced : That which the fool does in...