 | 王之 - Literary Collections - 2005 - 336 pages
...and my son, Henry for their understanding and support of all my endeavours in my life. 16 ESSAYS But WORDS are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which, makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. — Lord Byron 18 fflT i=t~THT mm \ ~^ ftfc^A^ ' ; ffaS r^j [fa ' ' cfPBSBS^5fe— T ' H§§*Mffi '... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 2005 - 145 pages
...days books were rare and dear. Xow on the contrary, it may be said with greater truth than ever that " Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."1 Oar ancestors had a difficulty in procuring them. Our difficulty MOW is what to select. We... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Self-Help - 2005 - 465 pages
...Rome led to the famous " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." " Words are things " says Byron, " and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought,...that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think," " I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony " ; such were the words of ten ministers... | |
 | Dov Peretz Elkins, Abigail Treu - Bible - 2005 - 361 pages
...Abraham Joshua Heschel Seek out the book of the Lord, and read. - Isaiah 34:16 But words are things, a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. hy is the Bible more famous than known, as Voltaire once asked? Partly because it is an anthology of... | |
 | Phebe Hanaford, Phebe Ann Hanaford - History - 2005 - 753 pages
...Swisshelm — Amelia Bloomer, and others, « Words ate things ; and a small drop of ink, FalJipg Hk« dew 'upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think," BYBOS, " They that handle the pen of the writer," — JUDGES T. 14. "TTERY many women are journalists... | |
 | Diane Long Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 286 pages
...pestilent 'things too?" (BLJ, 3:207; original emphasis). This concept would later appear in Don Juan: "But words are things, and a small drop of ink, / Falling.../That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think" (CPW 3:793-95). Throughout his writing life, Byron remained poignantly aware of the power of words... | |
 | Skip DeBrusk - Sports & Recreation - 2006 - 196 pages
...woman? Will it baptize a child someday?" "Maybe it was last night's dew," I said. "To quote Byron, Words are things and a small drop of ink, falling,...that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." He stepped outside and swiped his index finger up the pane of glass, then grandly presented the drops... | |
 | Larry Chang - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2006 - 826 pages
...much as the best action for they contain the germ of them all. ~ Madame Swetchine, 1782-1857 ~ he is. Words are things and a small drop of ink Falling like...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think. -Lord Byron, 1788-1824Every word is supposed to have a meaning. Now, words are like nuts. Some are... | |
 | Mia Ingels - 2006 - 354 pages
...ideas, and imagination just as we have pictured them in our minds." Anu Garg (http://wordsmith.org.awad) "Words are things; and a small drop of ink Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824) Building one's English vocabulary is a process that requires practice,... | |
 | Gunilla Budde (Historikerin), Sebastian Conrad, Oliver Janz - Historiography - 2006 - 328 pages
...works, Don Juan, which was also a history of the transformation of identity across space and time: "But words are things, and a small drop of ink Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." Peter Jelavich Cultural History In this essay, I offer a brief outline of some issues in the realm... | |
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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... 
