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The role of proverbs in the work of great Romantics was carefully analyzed, yet it was done long ago. In 1958, Stanislaw Swirko studied proverbs used in Pan Tadeusz; in 1964, Jan Miroslaw Kasjan gave consideration to the use of proverbs and colloquial metaphors in Slowacki's works. Afterwards, that issue was only occasionally considered. The author returns to those works years later, recounts them...