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A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
You ask when I will return; no date is set. Night rain in the Ba Mountains swells the autumn pools. When shall we trim a candle together by the western window and speak again of this night of rain in the Ba Mountains?
I left home young and come back old; my home accent unchanged, the hair at my temples thinned. The children see me and do not know me; laughing, they ask where the guest has come from.
The speaker asks his lady not to assume that a lover who sues for no compassion feels no pain, argues that silence in love shows more woe than witty speech, and returns to the opening plea.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A maxim in Life and Character in the 1906 edition of T. Bailey Saunders' English translation of Goethe. It is presented as a historically attributed text, not as present-day fact, diagnosis or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Fairies warn snakes, hedgehogs, spiders, beetles and snails away from their sleeping queen, with a sung lullaby refrain answering each set of warnings.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
A Tang poet represented here by two works in which moonlight leads toward homesickness and solitude.
李白
A Tang poet represented here by two works in which moonlight leads toward homesickness and solitude.
Li Bai is the author of this work.
→影Author of · Source-attestedDrinking Alone under the Moon ILi Bai is the author of this work.
→中Cultural region · Editorial comparisonChinaLi Bai is associated with the poetic culture of Tang China.
→A Scottish writer and poet whose The Moon turns the night world into a child's field of observation.
罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森
A Scottish writer and poet whose The Moon turns the night world into a child's field of observation.
Stevenson is the author of The Moon.
→苏Birth and cultural region · Source-attestedScotlandStevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
→The historical period of Li Bai and the two representative works.
唐代
The historical period of Li Bai and the two representative works.
This period includes the subject.
→影Includes work · Source-attestedDrinking Alone under the Moon IThis period includes the subject.
→The nineteenth-century British context in which A Child's Garden of Verses appeared in 1885.
维多利亚时代
The nineteenth-century British context in which A Child's Garden of Verses appeared in 1885.
This period includes the subject.
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