 | John Edmund Reade - 1829 - 356 pages
...few support it: some words, a few passages — leave impressions which will not be forgotten, " For words are things, and a small drop of ink " Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." The book is thus secretly perpetuated, and lives, merely because it will be heard. Now among such men,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 542 pages
...others' feeling ; but they are such liars, And take all colours— like the hands of dyers. LXXXVIII. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. 'T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses, Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages... | |
 | 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...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ; 'Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages... | |
 | 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 letter which man use* Instead... | |
 | 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...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ; 'T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages... | |
 | Alpheus Crosby - Greek language - 1841 - 272 pages
...the simple apprehension ; and SYNTAX, to the judgment. BOOK I. ORTHOGRAPHY. JEichyhu, Prom. Vinci, " A small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." ^ 7. THE Greek language is written with twenty-four letters, two breathings, three accents, four marks... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Literature - 1841 - 662 pages
...rest the mind to recall the words of Byron : " But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Pilling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ; T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages... | |
 | 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,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think." Never was this idea more strikingly verified than in the history of the immortal Carey, — "the man... | |
 | 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...produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, thiuk : 'Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses, Instead of speech, may form a lasting link... | |
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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... 
