Short is sweet
Christopher Ricks, 3 February 1983
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
edited by J.A. Simpson.
Oxford, 256 pp., £7.95, October 1982,0 19 866131 2 Show More
edited by J.A. Simpson.
Oxford, 256 pp., £7.95, October 1982,
A World of Proverbs
by Patricia Houghton.
Blandford, 152 pp., £5.95, September 1981,0 7137 1114 0 Show More
by Patricia Houghton.
Blandford, 152 pp., £5.95, September 1981,
“... in Dylan; in the poets who keep a sharp eye for the ephemeral: Auden and Larkin. And Randall Jarrell: ‘You can’t break eggs without making an omelette. That’s what they tell the eggs.’ ‘The old adage might well be applied in many cases. Every man for himself’ (D. Yancey, 1795). ‘The captain ... ordered the sailor to leave the boat. “Every ... ”