John Lyly: Citations en anglais
“Lette me stande to the maine chance.”
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 104. Compare: "The main chance", William Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI, act i, sc. 1.; Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part ii' canto ii.; John Dryden, Persius, satire vi.
Poem: Cupid and Campaspe.
“A clere conscience is a sure carde.”
John Lyly livre Euphues
Euphues, p. 207, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "This is a sure card", Thersytes, circa 1550.
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 93. Compare: "Jupiter himself was turned into a satyr, a shepherd, a bull, a swan, a golden shower, and what not for love", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii, sec ii, mem. i, subs. 1.
“Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.”
Source: Euphues and his England, P. 287. Compare: "Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb", Sir Walter Raleigh, The Silent Lover.
“A comely olde man as busie as a bee.”
Source: Euphues and his England, P. 252.
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 112.
“I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde.”
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 107. Compare: "To hold with the hare and run with the hound", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part i, Chap. x.
“I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.”
Source: Euphues and his England, P. 308.
“Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke.”
Source: Euphues and his England, P. 229. Compare: "To rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb", Breton, Court and Country, 1618 (reprint, page 182); "Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed", James Hurdis, The Village Curate.
Source: Euphues and his England, P. 289.
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 86.
“The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.”
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 81. Compare: "Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow", Plutarch, Of the Training of Children; "Stillicidi casus lapidem cavat" (translation: "Continual dropping wears away a stone"), Lucretius, i. 314; "Many strokes, though with a little axe,/ Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak", William Shakespeare, 3 Henry VI, act ii, sc. 1.
“How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,
The morne not waking til she sings.”
Cupid and Campaspe, Act v, Sc. 1. Compare: "Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gat sings,/And Phœbus 'gins arise", William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act ii, sc. 3.
“There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.”
Euphues and his Euphœbus, p. 153, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "There is no fire without some smoke", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part ii, Chap. v.
“It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.”
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 80. Compare: "A brown study", Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation.
“Though the Camomill, the more it is trodden and pressed downe the more it spreadeth.”
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 46. Compare: "The camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows", William Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV, act ii, sc. 4.
“A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.”
Source: Euphues and his England, P. 314. Compare: "The rose is fairest when 't is budding new", Sir Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake, canto iii. st. 1.
“For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.”
John Lyly livre Euphues
P. 311 http://books.google.com/books?id=3xRbAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;for+experience+teacheth+me+that+straight+trees+have+crooked+roots&quot;&pg=PA311#v=onepage <br class="br">Euphues and his England
“Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.”
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 39. Compare: "Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,/ But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy", William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act i, sc. 3.
“As lyke as one pease is to another.”
John Lyly livre Euphues
Euphues, p. 215, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“He reckoneth without his Hostesse. Love knoweth no lawes.”
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 84. Compare: "Reckeners without their host must recken twice", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part i, Chap. viii.
“Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.”
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 108.
“The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.”
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 47.
“Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.”
Source: Euphues and his England, P. 279.
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 116. Compare: "'T is a world to see", William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act ii, sc. 1.
John Lyly livre Euphues
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 78. Compare: "Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part i, Chap. iv.
