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.
379.
But the age of chivalry is gone.
That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded;
and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Reflections on the French Revolution
380. Take time by the forelock.
381.
The childhood shews the man,
As morning shews the day.
Paradise Regained, Bk IV, line 220
382.
What is a law, if those who make it
Become the forwardest to break it?
The Wolf and the Shepherds
383.
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through, and picks them all at last.
Venus and Adonis, 96
384.
’Tis not what man Does which exalts him,
But what man Would do!
Saul, XVIII