A Dictionary of Modern Greek Proverbs: With an English Translation, Explanatory Remarks, and Philological IllustrationsT. Clark, 1831 - 144 頁 |
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第 10 頁
... wise be- hind hand , and try to correct a fault , when it is too late . The story is , that a muleteer half - starved his mule , and that one day he loaded it so heavily that it fell down from weakness . He unloaded it , and in vain ...
... wise be- hind hand , and try to correct a fault , when it is too late . The story is , that a muleteer half - starved his mule , and that one day he loaded it so heavily that it fell down from weakness . He unloaded it , and in vain ...
第 11 頁
... wise in his own conceit . English say , The wisdom's in the wig . ̓Απὸ τὰ καλῶς συναγμένα ἐπαίρει ὁ Διάβολος τὰ μισὰ , μὲ τὰ κακῶς δὲ καὶ αὐτὸν τὸν νοικοκύρην.— Of what is honestly acquired , the Devil gets the half ; but together with ...
... wise in his own conceit . English say , The wisdom's in the wig . ̓Απὸ τὰ καλῶς συναγμένα ἐπαίρει ὁ Διάβολος τὰ μισὰ , μὲ τὰ κακῶς δὲ καὶ αὐτὸν τὸν νοικοκύρην.— Of what is honestly acquired , the Devil gets the half ; but together with ...
第 14 頁
... wise man , by proper arrangement in business , is able to perform , with the greatest ease , what others are totally unable to accomplish . * Ας πάγῃ νὰ κουρεύηται . Let him go and shear himself : It is also said , as xovgrúntai , x ...
... wise man , by proper arrangement in business , is able to perform , with the greatest ease , what others are totally unable to accomplish . * Ας πάγῃ νὰ κουρεύηται . Let him go and shear himself : It is also said , as xovgrúntai , x ...
第 21 頁
... wise the following saying : Μετὰ τὴν δόσιν τάχιστα γηράσκει χάρις . Γρόθους σήμερον , καὶ λόγους αὔριον . — Blows to - day , and words to - morrow : -To those who begin This pro- where they should end , and vice versa 145-152 PROVERBS . 21.
... wise the following saying : Μετὰ τὴν δόσιν τάχιστα γηράσκει χάρις . Γρόθους σήμερον , καὶ λόγους αὔριον . — Blows to - day , and words to - morrow : -To those who begin This pro- where they should end , and vice versa 145-152 PROVERBS . 21.
第 25 頁
... wise , pound foolish . - Or to thieves , who attempting to steal little , often lose much . The origin of the proverb in question is this : -A peasant went one day on horseback to steal a sheep , and approaching a fold where the sheep ...
... wise , pound foolish . - Or to thieves , who attempting to steal little , often lose much . The origin of the proverb in question is this : -A peasant went one day on horseback to steal a sheep , and approaching a fold where the sheep ...
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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.