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.
523.
A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse,
Gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
The Country Wife (Alithea), Act III, Scene I
524. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.
On the Present Discontents
525.
More liberty begets desire of more;
The hunger still increases with the store.
The Hind and the Panther, Pt I, line 519
526.
Genius, like all heavenly light,
Can blast as well as bless the sight.
Stanzas to the Author of Mont Blanc
527. Great talkers are never great doers.
Blurt, Master-Constable (Third Lady), Act Scene I
528.
Your evidence was lame:— proceed:
Come, help your lame dog o’er the stile.
Poems, Upon the Horrid Plot etc. (Whig and Tory)