WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
JULES SANDEAU. La Roche aux Mouettes (Extracts). [Nutt’sShort French Readers, 6d.]
THÉOPHILE GAUTIER. Voyage en Italie. [CambridgeUniversity Press, 3s.]
ÉMILE SOUVESTRE. Le Philosophe sous les toits (Extracts).[Blackie’s Little French Classics, 4d.]
PIERRE CŒUR. L’Âme de Beethoven. [Siepmann’s FrenchSeries. Macmillan, 2s.]
“Omne epigramma sit instar apis; sit aculeus illi,
Sint sua mella, sit et corporis exigui.”Martial.
[Thus Englished by Archbishop Trench:
“Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all;
Its sting, its honey, and its body small.”]
[And thus by my friend, Mr. F. Storr:
“An epigram’s a bee: ’tis small, has wings
Of wit, a heavy bag of humour, and it stings.”]
“Celebre dictum, scita quapiam novitate insigne.”Erasmus.
“The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in itsproverbs.”—Bacon.
“The people’s voice the voice of God we call;
And what are proverbs but the people’s voice?”James Howell.
“What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.”Pope, Essay on Criticism.
“The wit of one man, the wisdom of many.”—Lord JohnRussell (Quarterly Review, Sept. 1850).
FRENCH IDIOMS AND PROVERBS
A COMPANION TO DESHUMBERT’S
“DICTIONARY OF DIFFICULTIES”
BY
DE V. PAYEN-PAYNE
PRINCIPAL OF KENSINGTON COACHING COLLEGE
ASSISTANT EXAMINER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
FOURTH REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
[Fifth Thousand]
LONDON
DAVID NUTT, 57-59 LONG ACRE
1905
Villon, Ballade des Proverbes.
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