Neither criticism nor praise

to extend all over the globe (idiom); far-reaching

the custom of the barbarians

Desperate trees

The crow flies and the rabbit run.(Time flies.)

Without thinking

injure the country and bring calamity to the people

with everybody watching(all eyes centre on something)

the corrupt became honest and the drifters filled with ambition

Violation of rules

a land of nothing

Frog singing

Freely

sweep all before one(Nothing is indestructible.)

not to make fish of one and flesh of another

One's essay has attained the highest level of literary perfection.

myriads of things

Play with the sun and time

make the rounds(spread far and wide)

drive the sparrows into the thickets