 | George Willis - 1856 - 112 pages
...your Correspondents know where arc to be found— Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Fulling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ? JCD THE lines misquoted by your correspondent, JW, are by the cavalier-poet Colonel Richard Lovelace,... | |
 | School libraries - 1847 - 900 pages
...words ; but impulses pregnant with good or evil, far-reaching and comprehensive as time itself; for "Words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." But you have now left behind you, for a brief period, the school room and its responsible duties ;... | |
 | Holme Lee - English fiction - 1857 - 332 pages
...forever be, 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... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Philosophy - 1857 - 400 pages
...REV. ASA AUTHOR OP AN "INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY,' "A TREATISE ON THE WILL," ETC. "Words are things; A small drop of Ink, falling like dew upon a thought,...that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think," NEW YOEK: AS, BARNES & CO., 51 & 53 JOHN-STREET. 1857. V Entered according to Act of Congress, in the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Education - 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Education - 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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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. 
