A Dictionary of Modern Greek Proverbs: With an English Translation, Explanatory Remarks, and Philological IllustrationsT. Clark, 1831 - 144 頁 |
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... enemy's present is no favour : -In Greece this proverb is also used in another form . Εχθροῦ χάρισμα δὲν διαφέρει ἀπὸ Znuiav . - The gift of an enemy is no better than an injury . Virgil seems to have had the same sentiment in view ...
... enemy's present is no favour : -In Greece this proverb is also used in another form . Εχθροῦ χάρισμα δὲν διαφέρει ἀπὸ Znuiav . - The gift of an enemy is no better than an injury . Virgil seems to have had the same sentiment in view ...
第 10 頁
... flying from one thing to another without the least connection . ̓Απὸ ̓μπροσθὰ κάλλια τὸν ἐχθρὸν , πάρ ' ἀπ ̓ ὀπίσω . Better to have the enemy in front than in the rear : -To those who , under the mask of 63-69 10 .. GREEK.
... flying from one thing to another without the least connection . ̓Απὸ ̓μπροσθὰ κάλλια τὸν ἐχθρὸν , πάρ ' ἀπ ̓ ὀπίσω . Better to have the enemy in front than in the rear : -To those who , under the mask of 63-69 10 .. GREEK.
第 11 頁
... enemies , we may be on our guard against them ; also in English , a fair foe is better than a false friend . ̓Απὸ πέτραν εἰς λιθάριον . From the rock to the peb- ble : -To bad debtors who , under various pretexts , defer payment from ...
... enemies , we may be on our guard against them ; also in English , a fair foe is better than a false friend . ̓Απὸ πέτραν εἰς λιθάριον . From the rock to the peb- ble : -To bad debtors who , under various pretexts , defer payment from ...
第 41 頁
... enemies , who wishing to depreciate his merit as the discoverer of America , said that it was nothing extraordinary , and that each of them could have done the same . At a great feast where several of these persons were pre- sent ...
... enemies , who wishing to depreciate his merit as the discoverer of America , said that it was nothing extraordinary , and that each of them could have done the same . At a great feast where several of these persons were pre- sent ...
第 46 頁
... merits . Ἔχει κ ' ἡ μυῖγα σπλῆναν..Even the fly has a spleen : -We ought neither to despise nor to insult the weakness of an enemy ; the tamest may feel an injury , and the most feeble find a mode of 284-288 46 GREEK.
... merits . Ἔχει κ ' ἡ μυῖγα σπλῆναν..Even the fly has a spleen : -We ought neither to despise nor to insult the weakness of an enemy ; the tamest may feel an injury , and the most feeble find a mode of 284-288 46 GREEK.
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第 48 頁 - Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart...
第 141 頁 - Je l'assistai dans l'indigence : II ne me rendit jamais rien. Mais quoiqu'il me dût tout son bien, Sans peine il souffrait ma présence. Oh ! la rare reconnaissance ! XVI. — Parodie de cinq vers de Chapelle4. Tout grand ivrogne du Marais Fait des vers que l'on ne lit guère.
第 113 頁 - Pericles delivered, nominally over the grave of those who had fallen in the first year of the Peloponnesian war, but really on the greatness of Athens, he considers that the city had a great claim on the gratitude and patriotism of her sons, on account of the abundant bodily and mental recreations she had provided for them.
第 139 頁 - When asked what he was going to do, he replied: "I am going to storm hell ; the soldiers are beginning to eat fire already.
第 119 頁 - ... one's eye cross-legged, and tether five elephants to the pole of a dancer. (Tamil). Should the mustache of one's aunt grow we may call her uncle. (Tamil). Teeth do not wear mourning. (Trinidad Creole). Smiles and laughter may cover a breaking heart. The blind man sought for a needle in the straw-loft, and the man with a lame hand made a basket to put it in. (Modern Greek). The distinction of big and little does not apply to snakes. (Tamil). The egg made faces at the chicken. (Telugu). Applied...
第 37 頁 - The frog flew into a passion, and the pond knew nothing about it : — To insignificant men whose expressions of wrath are disregarded by their superiors.
第 10 頁 - From a bad debtor even a bag of straw is worth having. 69> Tov (ГхиХоу xa/xE tr-jvTe%wiv xal то paf&tvw (Ьагта. Make the dog your companion, but hold fast your stao'.
第 103 頁 - When they tell you, you are drunk, hold by the wall, and go on : — It is sometimes good policy to yield to public opinion,, and act as if it were just.
第 118 頁 - At a deaf man's door, it is all one whether you knock or not; — Otherwise: '2 те? яшфви гя» З-iíçctv, KTv-ra Vívraxáffta.