 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 str.
...Progrest. Words. — And WORDS came first, and after blows. CHARLES LLOYD, Sneech of Courtney. — But WORDS are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. BYRON, Don Juan, canto iii. st. 88. — For of all sad WORDS of tongue or pen, The saddest are these... | |
 | James Platt - 1878 - 218 str.
...candid when we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man." — POPB. HOW MEN MAY BECOME MORAL. "Bat words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thoughi, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think!" — BYBOIT. " "Tis education... | |
 | Bernard G. Beatty - 1985 - 264 str.
...Byron's time. Byron was peculiarly sensitive to the baffling emergence of thoughts and living forms: But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think; (III, 88) Random and inexplicable initiatives shape themselves into intelligibility and history, thus... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 str.
...others' feeling ; but thi;y are each liars, And take all colour»- like the hands of dyers. LXXXVin. own; my mother has forgot the mind Which made her...shepherd boy, who offers np The firstlings of the flock use« Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of agee; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man,... | |
 | Ramon Royal Ross - 1996 - 228 str.
...POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, word. —SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET, ACT n, SCENE 1 But words are things; and a small drop of ink,—...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. —LORD BYRON, DON JUAN The page of a great book does not differ mechanically from the page of a worthless... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1896 - 50 str.
...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...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." Our ancestors had a difficulty in procuring them. Our difficulty now is what to select. We must be... | |
 | Helen Granat - 1998 - 182 str.
...one's usefulness. JOHN CHEEVER Great men, like nature, use simple language. VAUVENARGUES Words are like things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which sometimes makes thousands, perhaps millions think. LORD BYRON 141 The use of mottoes is to indicate... | |
 | Richard Lederer - 2010 - 262 str.
...are but words and words are but wind. SAMUEL BUTLER \A/ ords are things; and a small drop of ink, / V Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. LORD BYRON An unusual word should be shunned as a ship would shun a reef. JULIUS CEASAR / V 1 here... | |
 | Agnes Cardinal, Dorothy Goldman, Judith Hattaway - 1999 - 402 str.
...leaving the usual lines of health talks. we shall proceed. HEALTH AND HYGIENE But words are dungs. and a small drop of ink. Falling like dew. upon a thought. produces. Thai which makes thousands. perhaps tmllions. Think Byron We shall now have a litde chat about HYGIENE.... | |
 | Melvin J. Lasky - 506 str.
...word 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...which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think..." —Lord Byron, "Don Juan " (18I8)2 Words Win, Language Loses The Infinity of a Split The appalling... | |
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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. 
