| William Leslie Fletcher - 1844 - 220 pages
...— but they are such liars, And take all colours, like the hands of dyers. But ww'i'U are things j and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produce:! That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. To what straits old Time reduces Trail... | |
| Miles's Boy (pseud) - 1845 - 602 pages
...publication, and 'narrow will number it among the periodicals of the day: — But tcorda are tilings; and a small drop of ink Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes hundreds, perhaps thousands, think: Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech,... | |
| 1827 - 516 pages
...the thoughts and actions of the illustrious, who now are mouldering in the dust, — an art, which, " falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think," — an art, which, as one of the priests, wise in the wisdom of this world, declared, on its production,... | |
| 1847 - 526 pages
...They 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...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. BYRON'S Don Juan. WORLD. J. All the world's a stage; And all the men and women merely players : They... | |
| 1847 - 540 pages
...They 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...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. BYRON'S Don Juan. WORLD. 1. All the world's a stage; And all the men and women merely players : They... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...anticipated, and presented already in as strong and engaging a form as possible. —JEFFREY.] 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... | |
| 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,...millions, think ; 'Tis strange, the shortest letter which men uses Instead of speech, may form a tasting link Of ages : to what stratts old time reduces Frail... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...have lived as long as Sheridan, and outlived as much as poor Brinsley. 1 I " But worde are things, ami a small drop of Ink, Falling like dew upon a thought,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think, 'Tie strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages,"... | |
| Josiah Clark Nott, George Robins Gliddon, Samuel George Morton - 1854 - 800 pages
...NOTT, MD, AND GEO. R. GLIDDON, "Si "7" KOBILK, ALABAMA, FOHHKKLT II. S. CO.I'SL'L AT C.UEO. t. — ** Words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling,...thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps million*, think."— BYBOV. PHILADELPHIA: LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO & OO. LONDON: TRUBNEE & CO. 1854. HARVARD... | |
| 1854 - 402 pages
...of no use to us. Good books inflame literary ambition ; create a desire in the mind to produce ; " A drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." ,. Let not the student, therefore, in his zeal to develop his own mind, lose the power of learning... | |
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