A Book of English Proverbs: With Origins and Explanations |
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A Book of English Proverbs: With Origins and Explanations Vere Henry Collins No preview available - 1974 |
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Adagia adumbration ancient Greek better birds bone Burton Stevenson century B.C. Charles Reade Charlotte Brontë Chaucer Cicero cites comes Compare current form dead devil Dickens Dictionary of Clichés Diogenes Laertius doth Draxe E. V. Lucas earliest record early English literature English Proverbs Eric Partridge Essays evil expression Figuratively fleas fool French Fuller the divine happen haste hath heart Herbert Heywood honour horse injunction Kelly Lamb Latin form Latin literature live Lyly Mahomet man's Maria Edgeworth Martin Chuzzlewit Matthew maxim meaning Merchant of Venice mill grinds nature Needles and pins never O.D.E.P. gives one's origin person phrase play poem Popular Fallacies quoted reference Romans saying sentiment seventeenth century Shakespeare statement sweet Taverner There's things thou thought Tom Fool translation trouble trouble Truth tyme variants verb woman words worse writes