Frasi di John Lyly

John Lyly è stato un drammaturgo britannico.

Studiò a Canterbury e ad Oxford, dove completò gli studi nel 1575. Esponente di spicco del teatro elisabettiano, creò uno stile detto eufuismo, poi ripreso da molti scrittori in epoca barocca. Divenne celebre con Eufue o L'anatomia dello spirito del 1578. Fu autore fra l'altro della commedia Saffo e Faone.

✵ 1554 – 27. Novembre 1606

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John Lyly frasi celebri

“La musa è amica di chi digiuna.”

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Frasi sull'amore di John Lyly

“È l'amore un vizio? | Non è una virtù.”

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Frasi sul destino di John Lyly

“Il destino non ammette discussioni.”

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“Il destino può essere ritardato, non evitato.”

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John Lyly Frasi e Citazioni

“La virtù deve essere cercata, non offerta.”

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“Voi amate e perciò sospettate ogni cosa.”

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“Amare non è tradimento.”

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“La saggezza guida le stelle.”

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“Sei saggio dalla cima dei capelli in su.”

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“I giovani dovrebbero essere audaci.”

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“Pentirsi è una vergogna.”

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John Lyly: Frasi in inglese

“Lette me stande to the maine chance.”

John Lyly libro Euphues

Origine: 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.

“A clere conscience is a sure carde.”

John Lyly libro Euphues

Euphues, p. 207, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "This is a sure card", Thersytes, circa 1550.

“Did not Jupiter transforme himselfe into the shape of Amphitrio to embrace Alcmæna; into the form of a swan to enjoy Leda; into a Bull to beguile Io; into a showre of gold to win Danae?”

John Lyly libro Euphues

Origine: 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.”

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Origine: 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.”

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Origine: Euphues and his England, P. 252.

“I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde.”

John Lyly libro Euphues

Origine: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 107. Compare: "To hold with the hare and run with the hound", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part i, Chap. x.

“Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke.”

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Origine: 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.

“The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.”

John Lyly libro Euphues

Origine: 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.”

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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.”

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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 libro Euphues

Origine: 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 libro Euphues

Origine: 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.”

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Origine: 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 libro Euphues

P. 311 http://books.google.com/books?id=3xRbAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=&amp;quot;for+experience+teacheth+me+that+straight+trees+have+crooked+roots&amp;quot;&amp;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 libro Euphues

Origine: 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 libro Euphues

Euphues, p. 215, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“He reckoneth without his Hostesse. Love knoweth no lawes.”

John Lyly libro Euphues

Origine: 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 libro Euphues

Origine: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 108.

“The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.”

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Origine: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 47.

“It is a world to see.”

John Lyly libro Euphues

Origine: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 116. Compare: "'T is a world to see", William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act ii, sc. 1.

“I cast before the Moone.”

John Lyly libro Euphues

Origine: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 78. Compare: "Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part i, Chap. iv.

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