| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1867 - 614 pages
...the calamitous years of 1846-47-48 when she first began to teach and to preach. ' Words are tilings ; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.' Those were days of great trouble and upsetting both in the social and the political world. In Ireland... | |
| John T. Watson - Quotations - 1869 - 524 pages
...expounders of the mind, And correspondence keep 'twixt afl mankind. JAMES HOWKL But words are things j and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. BYRON'S Don Juan. WORLD. All the world 'sa stage ; And all the men and women merely players : They... | |
| Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 420 pages
...and nothing is my own but the string that ties them. — MONTAIGNE. THOUGHTS. — Words are magic ; a small drop of ink Falling like dew upon a thought,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. — Byron. SABBATH. Six days may Rank divide the poor, 0, Dives, from thy banquet hall ; The seventh... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 768 pages
...are such liars, lad take all colours — like the hands of dyers. LXXXVill. fet words are things ; orgot, Resign their hallow'd bays to Walter Scott. The time has been 1Ъл which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think : fuses Ti3 strange, the shortest letter which... | |
| James Laird Vallandigham - History - 1872 - 620 pages
...understood the philosophy of Mirabeau, and after him Byron. He knew that — Words are things ; nnd a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. But the motives and the results expected from it cannot be thus concealed, and in a court of law it... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 404 pages
...; but they are such liars, And take all colours — like the hands of dyers. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a...paper — even a rag like this, Survives himself, his tomb, and all that's his. And when his bones are dust, his grave a blank, His station, generation,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 368 pages
...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...a lasting link Of ages ; to what straits old Time rednces Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this, Snrvives himself, his tomb, and all that's... | |
| John Henry Gordon - Christianity - 1873 - 164 pages
...THOUGHTS FOR THE MILLION; OK, l5uDs, blossoms, anD TBerrie0. JOHN HENRY GORDON. " Words are things, and a small drop of ink. Falling, like dew, upon a...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." — Byron. " In my dream, behold, a vine was before me,*** and it was as though it laddid, and her... | |
| Gleanings, A M V - 1873 - 116 pages
...explanation is very rare. 280. In our accustomed groove, how easily we run. 281. Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, may make millions, think. 282. Wit's naught, till it's dear bought. 283. Often, glad no more, we wear... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1873 - 798 pages
...spirituous, he might have lived as long as Sheridan, and outlived as much as poor Brinsley. 1 [ " But word* are thing*, and a small drop of Ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makei thousands, perhaps millions, think, 'Tls strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead... | |
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