 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...Hudibras. Words so debased and hard, no stone Was hard enough to touch them on. BUTLER: Hudibras. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. BYRON. The strongest love hath yet, at times, A weakness in its pow'r; And latent sickness often sends... | |
 | James Platt - Ethics - 1878 - 218 pages
...candid when we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man." — POPB. HOW MEN MAY BECOME MORAL. "Bat words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thoughi, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think!" — BYBOIT. " "Tis education... | |
 | 1879 - 902 pages
...creditably, the part in the work, that of necessity belongs to them. Byron has beautifully said " Words arc things ; and a small drop of ink falling like dew...which makes thousands, perhaps, millions, think." How great my recompense could I but feel, that imprisoned here among these drops of ink, were one incarnate... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...others' feeling ; but thi;y are each liars, And take all colour»- like the hands of dyers. LXXXVin. But my mother has forgot the mind Which made her thirst...eternal curee ; my brother is A watching shepherd bo 'Tis strange, the shortest letter which man use« Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of agee;... | |
 | Ramon Royal Ross - Performing Arts - 1996 - 228 pages
...POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, word. —SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET, ACT n, SCENE 1 But words are things; and a small drop of ink,— Falling,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. —LORD BYRON, DON JUAN The page of a great book does not differ mechanically from the page of a worthless... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Best books - 1896 - 50 pages
...books were rare and dear. Now on the contrary, it may be said with greater truth than ever that « Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." Our ancestors had a difficulty in procuring them. Our difficulty now is what to select. We must be... | |
 | Guinn Batten - Business & Economics - 1998 - 326 pages
...andink— reasons, and creatures, to love beyond the horizon of hope or the limits of the law: 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.... | |
 | Helen Granat - Quotations - 1998 - 182 pages
...one's usefulness. JOHN CHEEVER Great men, like nature, use simple language. VAUVENARGUES Words are like things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which sometimes makes thousands, perhaps millions think. LORD BYRON 141 The use of mottoes is to indicate... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 288 pages
...finally futile nature of such survival, the way in which it is divorced from the writing subject: 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;... | |
 | Richard Lederer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2010 - 262 pages
...are but words and words are but wind. SAMUEL BUTLER \A/ ords are things; and a small drop of ink, / V Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. LORD BYRON An unusual word should be shunned as a ship would shun a reef. JULIUS CEASAR / V 1 here... | |
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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... 
