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.
403.
The law is blind, and speaks in general terms;
She cannot pity where occasion serves.
The Heir (Euphues), Act IV.
404.
Him who ne’er listened to the voice of praise
The silence of neglect can ne’er appal.
The Minstrel Bk I, St. 2
405.
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
406.
True friendship’s laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Homer’s Odyssey, Bk XV, line 83
407. The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.
Henry VI, Pt II (Suffolk), Act III, Scene I
408. If the Poet be born, not made, is it not because he is born to sympathise with what he has never experienced?
What will he Do with It? (George Morley), Bk XII,
Ch. II