 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Harriet Parr - 1860 - 382 pàgines
...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... | |
 | George Winfred Hervey - 1860 - 422 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pàgines
...and with her, and for ever, All hopes and emotions they else had denied. From the German of Schiller. Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ! — A little word in kindness spoken, A motion or a tear, Has often heal'd the heart that's broken,... | |
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - 1864 - 586 pàgines
...garb. Its author well understood the philosophy of Mirabeau, and, after him, Byron. He knew that — " Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think." But the motives and the results expected from it cannot be thus concealed ; and, in a court of law,... | |
 | Ezra Hall Gillett - 1864 - 422 pàgines
...louder than words." These last are mighty, but example is mightier. The poet has said of words : " Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." Yet that word will die away on your ear ; that thought will vanish with the closed book. You may forget... | |
 | Holme Lee - 1865 - 278 pàgines
...of unexpressed ideas and lighting the way for other minds to deeper utterances than lie in them. " Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." It may be but a sentence dropt by chance on the wayside that lifts the soul to a higher level and gives... | |
 | J Joseph Overbeck - 1865 - 178 pàgines
...ausgedehnteren Gebrauch davon zu machen. Und nun fahre denn mein Wort hinaus, und Gott segne es! Wonls are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling , like dew , upon a thought . produces That which makes Ihousands, perhaps millions, think. 31. März 1865. JJ Overbeck, 5, Prospect Terrace Reading (England).... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pàgines
...magic's in the place or air, That all perfection needs must centre there P Churchill, Rosciad, 201. Words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Thy words had such a melting flow, Byron, DJ And spoke of truth so sweetly well, They dropp'd, like... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 pàgines
...but they are such liars, And take ail colours — like the hands of dyers. LXXXVIII. But words arc producrs That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ; 'T is strange, the shortest letter which... | |
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Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this, Survives himself, his tomb, and all that's his! 
