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.
619. Language is the dress of thought.
Lives of the Poets, Cowley
620. Wives are young men’s mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men’s nurses.
Essay VIII, Of Marriage and Single Life
621. Hot love soon colde.
Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. II
622. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.
On the Present Discontents
623.
The man that lays his hand upon a woman,
Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch
Whom ’t were gross flattery to name a coward.
The Honeymoon, Act II, Scene I
624.
There smiles no Paradise on earth so fair
But guilt will raise avenging phantoms there.
The Abencerrage, Can. 1