A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs: Also the Most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and Other Languages. The Whole Methodically Digested and Illustrated with Annotations, and Proper ExplanationsW. Otridge, S. Bladon, 1768 - 150 strán (strany) |
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Strana 3
... hill . Brabbling currs never want fore ears . The brain that fows not corn plants thiftles . The Afs that brays moft eats leaft . Would you have better bread than is made of wheat ? Ital . Bread with eyes , and cheefe without eyes ...
... hill . Brabbling currs never want fore ears . The brain that fows not corn plants thiftles . The Afs that brays moft eats leaft . Would you have better bread than is made of wheat ? Ital . Bread with eyes , and cheefe without eyes ...
Strana 37
... Font rejouir le pelerin . Gall . Sera roffa & negro matino Allegra il pelegrino . Ital . A red evening and a white morning rejoice the pilgrim . D 3 When you When the clouds are upon the hills , they'll concerning Husbandry , & c . 37.
... Font rejouir le pelerin . Gall . Sera roffa & negro matino Allegra il pelegrino . Ital . A red evening and a white morning rejoice the pilgrim . D 3 When you When the clouds are upon the hills , they'll concerning Husbandry , & c . 37.
Strana 38
... hills , they'll come down by the mills . David and Chad sow pease good or bad . That is , about the beginning of March . This rule in gardening never forget , To fow dry , and fet wet . When the floe - tree's as white as a fheet , Sow ...
... hills , they'll come down by the mills . David and Chad sow pease good or bad . That is , about the beginning of March . This rule in gardening never forget , To fow dry , and fet wet . When the floe - tree's as white as a fheet , Sow ...
Strana 57
... Hill in King Harry's days . To be loofe in the Hilts . Hit or mils for a cow - heel . A Hober - de boy , half a man and half a boy . Hold or cut Cod - piece - point . Hold him to it buckle and thong . She's an Holy - day dame . You'll ...
... Hill in King Harry's days . To be loofe in the Hilts . Hit or mils for a cow - heel . A Hober - de boy , half a man and half a boy . Hold or cut Cod - piece - point . Hold him to it buckle and thong . She's an Holy - day dame . You'll ...
Strana 61
... hills will bloom . Old man when thou diest give me thy doublet . An old woman in a wooden ruff . i . e . in an antique dress . It will do with an onion . To look like an owl in an Ivy - bush . To walk by owl - light . He has a good ...
... hills will bloom . Old man when thou diest give me thy doublet . An old woman in a wooden ruff . i . e . in an antique dress . It will do with an onion . To look like an owl in an Ivy - bush . To walk by owl - light . He has a good ...
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Strana 175 - A MAN of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds...
Strana 152 - Some say whore. £nit my dog a pair of breeches, and my cat a codpiece. He hath tied a knot with his tongue that he cannot untie -with all his teeth.
Strana 25 - If there be a rainbow in the eve, it will rain and leave, But if there be a rainbow in the morrow, it will neither lend nor borrow.
Strana 177 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Strana 59 - The hearth, or bottom of the furnace, is made of sand stone, and the sides round, to the height of a yard, or thereabout; the rest of the furnace is lined up to the top with brick. When they begin upon a new furnace they put fire for a day or two before they begin to blow.
Strana 60 - ... till they bring it to a bloom, which is a foursquare mass of about two feet long. This operation they call shingling the loop.
Strana 177 - To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs.
Strana 65 - Underneath is fastened' to the barrel a spoke of wood, which they call a swingle, which is drawn back a good way by the calms or cogs in the axis of the wheel, and draws back the barrel, which falls to again by its own weight.
Strana 8 - When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.
Strana 115 - Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his bow, And many talk of Little John that never did him know.