 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1832 - 456 pages
...are snch liars. And take all colonrs — like the hands of dyers. • IIL DON JUAN. I23 IXXXVIII. Bnt words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, npon a thonght, prodnces That which makes thonsands, perhaps millions, think; Tis strange, the shortest... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...feeling^') but they are such liars, And take all colours — like the hands of dyers. LXXXVIH. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ; 'Tis strange, the shortest... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...spirituous, he might have lived as long as Sheridan, and outlived as much as poor Brinsley. 1 ["But words are things, and a small drop of Ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which make* thousands, perhaps millions, think, 'Til strange, the shortest... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Literature - 1841 - 616 pages
...this art, this kalligraphy, of the copyists, it may rest the mind to recall the words of Byron : - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ; 'T is strange, the shortest... | |
 | James Wilson (M.D., of Malvern.) - 1842 - 246 pages
...169 APPENDIX. * Observations of Professor Pelletan on the Caloric Currents . .175 INTRODUCTION. "But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, thiuk : 'Tis strange, the shortest... | |
 | Francis Augustus Cox - Baptists - 1842 - 546 pages
...Cries," by Mr. Peggs, which have aroused public attention to these " abominations that make desolate." " Words are things ; and a small drop of ink Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think." Never was this idea more strikingly... | |
 | Literature - 1895 - 862 pages
...the rich and poor during those calamitous years of 1846-7 and 8, when she first began to teach and preach. Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think ! Mrs. Gaskell's vocation was... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...spirituous, he might have lived as long as Sheridan, and outlived as much as poor Brinslcy. 1 ["But words are things, and a small drop of Ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces II.,!' which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think, 'Til strange, the shortest... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...are the sole expounders of the mind, And correspondence keep 'twixt all mankind. JAMES HOWEL. 3. But words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. BYRON'S Don Juan. WORLD. 1.... | |
 | 1851 - 208 pages
...and solder of society."— BLAIE. No. 9.] PEINTED FOE THE MEMBEES OP THE ASSOCIATION. [AUO. 184?. " Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ; 'Tis strange, the shortest... | |
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think... 
