| Harriet Parr - 1860 - 382 pągines
...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, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." Then came a short dissertation... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pągines
...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 like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ! — A little word in kindness... | |
| Clement Laird Vallandigham - 1864 - 586 pągines
...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 like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think." But the motives and the results... | |
| Ezra Hall Gillett - 1864 - 422 pągines
...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 like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." Yet that word will die away... | |
| Holme Lee - 1865 - 278 pągines
...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, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." It may be but a sentence... | |
| J Joseph Overbeck - 1865 - 178 pągines
...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,... | |
| 1867 - 894 pągines
...words, and others like them, have been laid to heart, and have brought forth the fruit of good deeds, witness the universal charity that prevailed during...things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, u^on a thought, produces Tlmt which m likes thousands, perhaps millions, think.' Those were days of... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pągines
...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 like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Thy words had such a melting... | |
| Henry Allon - 1867 - 614 pągines
...words, and others like them, have been laid to heart, and have brought forth the fruit of good deeds, witness the universal charity that prevailed during...she first began to teach and to preach. ' Words are tilings ; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pągines
...others' feeling; but they are such liars, And take all colours— like the hands of dyers. LXXXVIII. 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... | |
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