 | William Mathews - English language - 1878 - 408 pages
...willing to cast the immortal soul, and to leave it dependent for all its future happiness. — WS LANDOR. Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling...like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousand, perhaps millions, think. — BYRON. A dead language is full of all monumental remembrances... | |
 | Melancthon Williams Jacobus - Presbyterians - 1876 - 124 pages
...which he illustrates. Judge not that a Christian s.cholar passes a life of idleness and waste; for " A drop of ink Falling, like dew, upon a thought Produces...that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." The sudden death of a Christian minister! Smitten when in full armor in the midst of vigorous duty... | |
 | Jerome Christensen - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 464 pages
...pirate Conrad — petrified in the face of difference — cannot. In canto 3 the poet reflects that words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think; 'T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...others' feeling ; but thi;y are each liars, And take all colour»- like the hands of dyers. LXXXVin. But words are things, and a small drop of ink. Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think; 'Tis strange, the shortest letter which man use« Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of agee;... | |
 | Don H. Bialostosky, Lawrence D. Needham - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 330 pages
...essence become things, Childe Harold "found them not," yet later Byron in Don Juan (3.88) protests But words are things, and a small drop of ink Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. . . . "tenor," I have not found it in the New Rhetoricians. However, "vehicle" appears abundantly in... | |
 | Ramon Royal Ross - Performing Arts - 1996 - 228 pages
...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,— Falling,...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 - Best books - 1896 - 50 pages
...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... | |
 | Guinn Batten - Business & Economics - 1998 - 326 pages
...and the value of engaging in carriage. Introduction: Romantic Melancholy and Commodity Culture But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. 'Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages.... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 288 pages
...f1nally 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...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think; 'Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages;... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...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...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. / Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses / Instead of speech, may form a lasting link / Of... | |
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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... 
