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Alnaschar dream the model for the modern Major-General in Gilbert and Sullivan’s1 “The Pirates of Penzance”. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy (saying) – Мешай дело с бездельем, проживёшь век с весельем It is a proverb meaning that without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring. Though the spirit of the proverb had been expressed previously, the modern saying appeared first in James Howell’s Proverbs in English, Italian, French and Spanish (1659), and was included in later collections of proverbs. Some writers have added a second part to the proverb, as in Harry and Lucy Concluded (1825) by the Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. Alnaschar/Al-Naschar dream – пустые мечты, фантазии (по имени героя одной из сказок «Тысячи и одной ночи»); цыплят по осени считают The phrase renders the idea of a parable about counting your chickens before they are hatched. Alnaschar in the “Arabian Nights” daydreamt of the wealth he would make by selling his glassware. In the story, Alnaschar was lying at a high perch and daydreaming, with the basket containing glassware at his feet. He would sell his glassware to make profit, invest the money to buy more glassware and sell it to make more profit. This process would go on and on till he became rich enough to marry the Sultan’s daughter. In his dream Alnaschar had a tiff with his wife and gave her a kick. Only in reality he kicked the basket containing glassware which fell from the high perch and the glassware tinkled into pieces: Coleridge (1772–1834), an 1 Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known. 11