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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... "
The works of ... lord Byron - Page 56
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821
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Don Juan, with notes. Complete ed

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...all colours — like the hands of dyers. LXXXVIII. But words are things ; and a small drop of ink, 88 Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think i 'Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages...
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The American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 2

1856 - 732 pages
...them, insure to him an actual immortality. The author of a good book is the true Methuselah ; For a drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, Produces that which makes millions think. To what straits old Time reduces man When paper — e'en a rag like this, Survives...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 17

1858 - 884 pages
...email drop of ink, Kallin¡r like dew upon a thought, produces That ;vhich makea thousands, per haps millions, think. 'TIs strange the shortest letter...straits old Time reduces Frail man, when paper — even & rag like this. Survives himself, his tomb, and sll that's lus!" Literary energy succeeding to the...
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature: And British and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1858 - 1022 pages
...attention of Clarkson and Wilberforce to the subject of the Slave Trade : — " So true is it that '• Words are things ; and a small drop of Ink, Falling,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." BYROIT. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy, 1778-1827, a native of Wells in England, evinced a strong literary...
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Chronicle of the Hundredth Birthday of Robert Burns

James Ballantine - 1859 - 630 pages
...the poet, and teaches them in their own speech and language. "Words are her most potent spells, " For words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." The handiwork of man may fade away, but true words once uttered endure for all time, and " the poet...
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Chronicle of the Hundredth Birthday of Robert Burns

James Ballantine - 1859 - 634 pages
...teaches them in their own speech and language. Words are her most potent spells, " For words are tiling?, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." The handiwork of man may fade away, but true words once uttered endure for all time, and " the poet...
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The North-Carolina Journal of Education, Volume 2

1859 - 414 pages
...Saga was in its slory. or the more favored days of Greece and Лоте, with these modern days, "When a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces that Which makes thousands, perhaps milHone I li ml; ;" and we may have some conception of the strength of the forces now acting; to preserve...
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 pages
...the Slave Trade: — " So true is it that '• Words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Knlling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." BTROM. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy, 1778-1827, a native of Wells in England, evinced a strong literary...
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Kathie Brande, by Holme Lee, Volume 131

Harriet Parr - 1860 - 382 pages
...a crown of thorns." Immediately below, followed these lines from Byron's poem of "Don Juan" : — " words are things, and a small drop of ink Falling,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." Then came a short dissertation on this text, touching the responsibility of authorship : like seed...
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The rhetoric of conversation, ed. by S. Jenner

George Winfred Hervey - 1860 - 422 pages
...you in all the scenes of earth, and haunt you for ever through the regions of an unseen, world." " A small drop of ink Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, aye, millions think." ED. Changed, yet the same : echo, yet living tone. From weeping hearts where...
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