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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch; There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream; There are none so blind as those who will not see – attributed variously to Edmund Burke or George Santayana; There are two sides to every question; There but for the grace of God go I; There is an exception to every rule
[32] Furthermore, Jeoffry himself is the "most famous cat in the whole history of English literature." [33] Smart is fond of his cat and praises his cat's relationship with God when he says (B695–B768): "For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.
The proverbs are in alliterative verse, but the verse does not adhere to the rules of classical Old English poetry. Caesurae are present in every line, but the lines are broken in two (cf. Pearl ). The collection shows signs of transition in verse form from the earlier Anglo-Saxon alliterative form to the new Norman rhyme form, for rhyme ...
One hundred and ten pages. June, 1851. Newcastle upon Tyne, imprinted by George Bouchier Richardson, at the sign of the River God Tyne, 38, Clayton-st., West. Cr. 8vo., a few copies printed in 4to. V. «A Collection of English Border Rhymes, Proverbs and Sayings in connexion with the Feudal Period.» Twelve pages, July, 1850. Fifty copies. VI.
However, unlike the examples given above in English, all of which are anti-proverbs, Tatira's examples are standard proverbs. Where the English proverbs above are meant to make a potential customer smile, in one of the Zimbabwean examples "both the content of the proverb and the fact that it is phrased as a proverb secure the idea of a secure ...
The Durham Proverbs is a collection of 46 mediaeval proverbs from various sources. They were written down as a collection, in the eleventh century, on some pages (pages 43 verso to 45 verso, between a hymnal and a collection of canticles) of a manuscript that were originally left blank.
The poem is found in only one manuscript, the Reichenauer Schulheft or Reichenau Primer.The primer appears to be the notebook of an Irish monk based in Reichenau Abbey. The contents of the primer are diverse, it also contains "notes from a commentary of the Aeneid, some hymns, a brief glossary of Greek words, some Greek declension, notes on biblical places, a tract on the nature of angels, and ...
Although this is a recurring theme in both Latin and Old English literature, the military language does not appear in the Latin counterparts, such as the Acta Sanctorum, and so it is believed that Cynewulf probably wove it in for two possible reasons: the first being to make Juliana easier to relate to; the second, to create the metaphor that ...