 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don Juan (Legendary character) - 1821 - 232 pages
...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 letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting Link Of ages... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...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 letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - British - 1824 - 372 pages
...secure. There is more to be apprehended " But words are things ; — and a small drop of ink, " Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces " That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." " from friends than foes. Only keep the Vandals out of it ; " they would be like the Goths here." "... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 574 pages
...differently of the cause, — at least * " But words are things ; — and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." Don Juan, Canto III. Stanza 88. " of its success. I look upon the Morea " as secure. There is more... | |
 | William Samuel Cardell - Language and languages - 1825 - 276 pages
...The next verse explains its own tenses. " But words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. " Lord Byron. Are, at all times, according to their general nature. Falling, at any time, whenever... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...colours—like the hands of dyers. LXXXVIH. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces 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;... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1829 - 356 pages
...impressions which will not be forgotten, " For words are things, and a small drop of ink " Falling like dew upon a thought, produces " That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." The book is thus secretly perpetuated, and lives, merely because it will be heard. Now among such men,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 542 pages
...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. 'T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses, Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...colours — like the hands of dyers. LXXXVIH. 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 letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages... | |
 | Alpheus Crosby - Greek language - 1841 - 272 pages
...SYNTAX, to the judgment. BOOK I. ORTHOGRAPHY. JSschyha, Prom. Pïnct. " A small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." § 7. THE Greek language is written with twenty-four letters, two breathings, three accents, four marks... | |
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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... 
