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.
475. Courage scorns the death it cannot shun.
The Conquest of Granada, Pt II (Almanzar), Act IV, Scene II
476.
A Briton, even in love, should be
A subject, not a slave.
Poems founded on the Affections
477. Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
Letter to Comitess of Bute.
478. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Proverbs 15:17
479.
Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes:
Some falls are means the happier to arise.
Cymbeline (Lucius), Act IV, Scene II
480.
Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Epigrams