| Literature - 1895 - 862 pages
...rich and poor during those calamitous years of 1846-7 and 8, when she first began to teach and preach. Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think ! Mrs. Gaskell's vocation was that of a peacemaker. She compels us to feel, not how different men are,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1844 - 780 pages
...might have lived as long as Sheridan, and outlived as much as poor Brinsley. [" But words are thtngi, and a small drop of Ink, Falling like dew upon a thought,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think, 'Tls strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages,"... | |
| Alpheus Crosby - Greek language - 1844 - 518 pages
...simple apprehension; and SYNTAX, to the judgment. BOOK I. ORTHOGRAPHY. S t JKschylus, Prom. Vinct. " A small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." § 7. THE Greek language is written with twenty-four letters, two breathings, three accents, four marks... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...less spirituous, he might have lived as long as Sheridan, and outlived as much as poor Brinslcy. 1 ["But words are things, and a small drop of Ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces II.,!' which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think, 'Til strange, the shortest letter which man... | |
| Miles's Boy (pseud) - 1845 - 602 pages
...publication, and 'narrow will number it among the periodicals of the day: — But tcorda are tilings; and a small drop of ink Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes hundreds, perhaps thousands, think: Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech,... | |
| Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...They are the sole expounders of the mind, And correspondence keep 'twixt all mankind. JAMES HOWEL. 3. But words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. BYRON'S Don Juan. WORLD. 1. All the world's a stage; And all the men and women merely players : They... | |
| Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...They are the sole expounders of the mind, And correspondence keep 'twixt all mankind. JAMES HOWEL. 3. But words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. BYRON'S Don Juan. WORLD. J. All the world's a stage; And all the men and women merely players : They... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...been anticipated, and presented already in as strong and engaging a form as possible. —JEFFREY.] LXXXVIII. But words are things, and a small drop of...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... | |
| 1851 - 208 pages
...and solder of society."— BLAIE. No. 9.] PEINTED FOE THE MEMBEES OP THE ASSOCIATION. [AUO. 184?. " Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling,...millions, think ; 'Tis strange, the shortest letter which men uses Instead of speech, may form a tasting link Of ages : to what stratts old time reduces Frail... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...have lived as long as Sheridan, and outlived as much as poor Brinsley. 1 I " But worde are things, ami a small drop of Ink, Falling like dew upon a thought,...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think, 'Tie strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages,"... | |
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