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1 the milk of human kindness
сострадание, доброта, сердечность [шекспировское выражение; см. цитату]Lady Macbeth: "...yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly. That wouldst thou holily... " (W. Shakespeare, ‘Macbeth’, act I, sc. 5) — Леди Макбет: "...но я боюсь, что нрав твой чрезмерно полон благостного млека, чтоб взять кратчайший путь. Ты ждешь величья. Ты не лишен тщеславья, но лишен Услуг порочности. Ты жаждешь сильно, Но жаждешь свято." (перевод М. Лозинского)
Sellers said privately that Rossmore was the most extraordinary character he had ever met - a man just made out of the condensed milk of human kindness... (M. Twain, ‘The American Claimant’, ch. XXV) — Селлерс сказал в частной беседе, что Россмор был самым необыкновенным человеком, которого он когда-либо встречал, человеком, являвшимся воплощением доброты и сердечности...
Besides, a man with the milk of human kindness in him can scarcely abstain from doing a good-natured action, and one cannot be good-natured all around. (G. Eliot, ‘The Mill on the Floss’, book I, ch. III) — К тому же человеку добросердечному трудно устоять, если представится возможность проявить доброту и участие, но не может же он жалеть весь свет.
The milk of human kindness was softening the iron resolution of this man of steel. (J. Conroy, ‘The Disinherited’, part II, ch. V) — Млеко человеческой доброты смягчило непреклонную решимость этого человека.
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