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.
637. No crime’s so great as daring to excel.
Epistle to Hogarth, line 52
638. When th’ iron is hot, strike.
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. III
639.
A man may cry Church! Church! at ev’ry word.
With no more piety than other people —
A daw’s not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.
Ode to Rae Wilson Esq.
640.
War is honourable
In those who do their native rights maintain;
In those whose swords an iron barrier are
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak.
Ethwuld (Hereulf), Act I, Scene III
641.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
The Mourning Bride (Zara), Act III, Scene VIII
642.
A Briton, even in love, should be
A subject, not a slave.
Poems founded on the Affections