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.
37. Faint heart faire lady ne’er could win.
Brittain’s Ida, Can. V, St. I
38.
’Tis not what man Does which exalts him,
But what man Would do!
Saul, XVIII
39. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Silas Marner (Nancy), Chap. XVIII
40.
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still —
My country! and while yet a nook is left
Where English minds and manners may be found,
Shall be constrain’d to love thee.
The Task, Bk II, line 206
41.
He that, to his prejudice, will do
A noble action and a gen’rous too,
Deserves to wear a more resplendent crown
Than he that hath a thousand battles won.
Cruelty and Lust, line 399
42. Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. XI