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Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000011802851
A collection of British and American proverbs that are currently in use.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780300183351
"You can't unring a bell." "It takes a village to raise a child." "Life is just a bowl of cherries." We sometimes think of proverbs as expressions of ancient wisdom, but in fact new proverbs are constantly arising. This unique volume is devoted exclusively to English language proverbs that originated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The most complete and accurate such collection ever compiled, The Yale Book of Modern Proverbs presents more than 1,400 individual proverbs gathered and researched with the help of electronic full-text databases not previously used for such a project. Entries are organized alphabetically by key words, with information about the earliest datable appearance, origin, history, and meaning of each proverb. Mundane or sublime, serious or jocular, these memorable sayings represent virtually every aspect of the modern experience. Readers will find the book almost impossible to put down once opened; every page offers further proof of the immense vitality of proverbs and their colorful contributions to the oral traditions of today.
Author : Charles Clay Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 661360075X
A volume of English-language proverbs that originated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Entries are organized alphabetically by key words, with information about the earliest datable appearance, origin, history, and meaning of each proverb.
Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674219813
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."
Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Proverbs, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004671256
Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0259469483
Excerpt from English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases That popular phraseology which has subsisted among us time out of mind, and which may be said to constitute a kind of common speech, presents to our notice a theme peculiarly abounding in curiosity, interest and social illustration. The Rev. John Ward, Vicar of stratford-on-avon in the time of Charles II., observes in his diary Six things required to a proverb; 1. Short; 2. Plain; 3. Common; 4. Figurative; 5. Ancient; 6. True. If we allow this to be a fair criterion or standard, it follows that in the existing collections are a very great number of articles which have no real title to a place there; and such is, indeed, the actual fact. In Dr. Fuller's Gnomologia, 1732, there are 6496 sayings; but of these a considerable proportion would have to be eliminated to satisfy Mr. Ward's postulates; for there are, assuredly, many which do not fall under any of those heads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Lewis BURCKHARDT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019286622
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253040367
In 1860 Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb, Right makes might, (opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right) in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb, his use of it in this critical speech indicates that the 14th century phrase had taken on new ethical and democratic connotations in the 19th century. In this collection, famed scholar of proverbs Wolfgang Mieder explores the multifaceted use and function of proverbs through the history of the United States, from their early beginnings up through their use by today's well-known politicians, including Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. Building on previous publications and unpublished research, Mieder explores sociopolitical aspects of the American worldview as expressed through the use of proverbs in politics, women's rights, and the civil rights movement. By looking at the use of proverbial phrases, Mieder demonstrates how one traditional phrase can take on numerous expressive roles over time and how they continue to play a key role in our contemporary moment.
Author : Margaret M. Bryant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Proverbs
ISBN : UOM:39076005229591
Author : John Lewis Burckhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Arabic literature
ISBN : EHC:148100021455V
Author : Richard Chenevix Trench
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10582768
Author : Gregory Titelman
Publisher : Random House Reference
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015037331959
An annotated reference of more than 1,500 proverbs and sayings of the American language.
Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting,Helen Wescott Whiting
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015016899976
Author : George B. Bryan,Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0820479470
A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.
Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Proverbs, English
ISBN : IBNF:CF005708579