| Sir John Lubbock - 1896 - 50 pàgines
...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 like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." Our ancestors had a difficulty... | |
| Guinn Batten - 1998 - 326 pàgines
...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 like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think; Tis strange, the shortest... | |
| Andrew Bennett - 1999 - 288 pàgines
...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 like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think; 'Tis strange, the shortest... | |
| Melvin J. Lasky - 506 pàgines
...that I fear, but the emotion which produces the word...." —Epictetus (50-138 AD). "Discourses'" "But words are things, and a small drop of ink falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think..." —Lord Byron, "Don Juan... | |
| David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pàgines
...liked the sound of them, you were lost. Anthony Burgess, 1990, You've Had Your Time, Ch. i 21:19 But words are things, and a small drop of ink, / Falling like dew upon a thought, produces / That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. / Tis strange, the shortest... | |
| Brenda Rapp - 2001 - 672 pàgines
...(1988). Boundaries of covert recognition in prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 5, 317-336. Words Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions think. -Lord Byron The Organization... | |
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