 | American periodicals - 1867 - 894 pages
...rich and poor during the calamitous years of 1846—47-48 when she first began to teach and to preach. Words are 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...have sung. The modern Greek, in tolerable verse ; If not like Orpheus quite, when Greece was young1. w ! are we comrades ?— the state's ducal robes Sit newly on me, tiscs Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages ; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man,... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1867 - 614 pages
...the calamitous years of 1846-47-48 when she first began to teach and to preach. ' Words are tilings ; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.' Those were days of great trouble and upsetting both in the social and the political world. In Ireland... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die. Canto iii. St. 86. 16. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like clew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Canto iii. St.... | |
 | John T. Watson - Quotations - 1869 - 524 pages
...expounders of the mind, And correspondence keep 'twixt afl mankind. JAMES HOWKL But words are things j and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. BYRON'S Don Juan. WORLD. All the world 'sa stage ; And all the men and women merely players : They... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 420 pages
...and nothing is my own but the string that ties them. — MONTAIGNE. THOUGHTS. — Words are magic ; a small drop of ink Falling like dew upon a thought,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. — Byron. SABBATH. Six days may Rank divide the poor, 0, Dives, from thy banquet hall ; The seventh... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 770 pages
...feeling : but they are such liars, lad take all colours — like the hands of dyers. LXXXVill. fet words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces 1Ъл which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think : fuses Ti3 strange, the shortest letter which... | |
 | James Laird Vallandigham - History - 1872 - 620 pages
...understood the philosophy of Mirabeau, and after him Byron. He knew that — Words are things ; nnd a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought,...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 it... | |
 | John Henry Gordon - Christianity - 1873 - 164 pages
... 600079005R THOUGHTS FOR THE MILLION; OK, l5uDs, blossoms, anD TBerrie0. JOHN HENRY GORDON. " Words are things, and a small drop of ink. Falling,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." — Byron. " In my dream, behold, a vine was before me,*** and it was as though it laddid, and her... | |
 | Gleanings, A M V - 1873 - 116 pages
...The gift of distinct explanation is very rare. 280. In our accustomed groove, how easily we run. 281. Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling...upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, may make millions, think. 282. Wit's naught, till it's dear bought. 283. Often, glad no more, we wear... | |
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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. 
