Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases
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Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases From English Writings Mainly Before 1500
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Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases From English Writings Mainly Before 1500 written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and has been published by Belknap Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with categories.
This book is a collection of English proverbs, sentences, and proverbial phrases from the Middle Ages. The material is drawn from an exhaustive examination of the surviving texts, mainly printed ones but some still in manuscript. Certain books written later than 1500, usually by authors who were born twenty years or so before the turn of the century, are included, and John Heywood, the first great assembler of English proverbs, is represented by the sayings he compiled. , "No matter how popular a saying may appear," Mr. Whiting points out in his Preface, "it comes to us at one remove or more from popular usage. The medieval proverbs which survive do so only because they were written down by educated men, none of them collectors from the field. In most cases the sayings were incorporated in literary works by authors who did not hesitate to make changes suggested by context, application, and meter. We sometimes forget that Heywood's Dialogue and Epigrams are poems, although Heywood's standards of prosody are such as to let him use proverbs without too drastic changes for rhyme and rhythm's sake. What we have in most quotations is the proverb, not as an author may have heard or read it, but in the form which suited his immediate convenience or whim." The sayings are alphabetized by key words and the quotations are in chronological order. Cross-references link sayings of similar import, and the index is a guide to important words other than those by which the alphabetical order is established. References are given to the standard collections of English proverbs, so that the user can trace the later history of many of the sayings. Filling a long-felt gap in the field, this work will be indispensable to students of Old and Middle English literature and of great value to everyone interested in the rich resources of proverb lore.
Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases
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Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with categories.
Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases From English Writings Before 1500
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Author : Bartlett J. Whiting
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 1968-06-01
Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases From English Writings Before 1500 written by Bartlett J. Whiting and has been published by Belknap Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is a collection of English proverbs, sentences, and proverbial phrases from the Middle Ages. The material is drawn from an exhaustive examination of the surviving texts, mainly printed ones but some still in manuscript. Certain books written later than 1500, usually by authors who were born twenty years or so before the turn of the century, are included, and John Heywood, the first great assembler of English proverbs, is represented by the sayings he compiled. "No matter how popular a saying may appear," Mr. Whiting points out in his Preface, "it comes to us at one remove or more from popular usage. The medieval proverbs which survive do so only because they were written down by educated men, none of them collectors from the field. In most cases the sayings were incorporated in literary works by authors who did not hesitate to make changes suggested by context, application, and meter. We sometimes forget that Heywood's Dialogue and Epigrams are poems, although Heywood's standards of prosody are such as to let him use proverbs without too drastic changes for rhyme and rhythm's sake. What we have in most quotations is the proverb, not as an author may have heard or read it, but in the form which suited his immediate convenience or whim." The sayings are alphabetized by key words and the quotations are in chronological order. Cross-references link sayings of similar import, and the index is a guide to important words other than those by which the alphabetical order is established. References are given to the standard collections of English proverbs, so that the user can trace the later history of many of the sayings. Filling a long-felt gap in the field, this work will be indispensable to students of Old and Middle English literature and of great value to everyone interested in the rich resources of proverb lore.
Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases From English Writings
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Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases From English Writings written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Proverbs, English categories.
Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases From English Writings Mainly Before 15oo
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Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases From English Writings Mainly Before 15oo written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with categories.
Middle French Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases
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Author : James Woodrow Hassell
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Middle French Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases written by James Woodrow Hassell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases
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Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1968
Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and has been published by Cambridge, Mass : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Reference categories.
A Dictionary Of English Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases
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Author : Thomas Preston
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-04-20
A Dictionary Of English Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases written by Thomas Preston and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-20 with categories.
Long before writing and books were in common use, proverbs were the principal means of imparting instruction. In modern times there is not so much need to apply these old sayings as a means of educating the people, but they are still constantly met with in the newspapers and in general literature, and they are rightly considered as "The texts of common life." The late Earl Russell very aptly described a proverb as "The wisdom of many and the wit of one." We value proverbs chiefly as moral maxims teaching some practical lesson set forth in concise, pithy sentences, which are fixed in the memory without effort, and retained without being burdensome. They have been found useful for guidance in almost every condition of life; but, on the other hand, it is quite true that many dangerous precepts have been propounded in proverbs, and some of the older ones gave such questionable advice, or were couched in such objectionable language, that they have been very properly omitted from every collection intended, as this is, for general use. Other old proverbs have become obsolete, and as their meaning is now obscure, they have not been included in the Dictionary.
Middle French Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases
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Author : James Woodrow Hassell (Jr.).)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Middle French Proverbs Sentences And Proverbial Phrases written by James Woodrow Hassell (Jr.).) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
Early American Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases
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Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1977
Early American Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."