 | 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,—...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... | |
 | Helen Granat - Quotations - 1998 - 182 pages
...one's usefulness. JOHN CHEEVER Great men, like nature, use simple language. VAUVENARGUES Words are like things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which sometimes makes thousands, perhaps millions think. LORD BYRON 141 The use of mottoes is to indicate... | |
 | Melvin J. Lasky - Social Science - 506 pages
...word that I fear, but the emotion which produces the word...." —Epictetus (50-138 AD). "Discourses'" "But words are things, and a small drop of ink falling...which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think..." —Lord Byron, "Don Juan " (18I8)2 Words Win, Language Loses The Infinity of a Split The appalling... | |
 | Genealogy - 1910 - 538 pages
...Mrs. Amos G. Draper, who has prepared the following brief account of the work of that committee : <: Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." Given 150 intelligent, patriotic women, representing every State in the Union — most of them enthusiastic... | |
 | Brenda Rapp - Cognition - 2001 - 672 pages
...(1988). Boundaries of covert recognition in prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 5, 317-336. Words Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling...that which makes thousands, perhaps millions think. -Lord Byron The Organization of the Lexical System Argye E. Hillis The topic of the types of representations... | |
 | William Keach - English language - 2004 - 216 pages
...court poet whose situation is remarkably made to connect Robert Southey's career with Byron's own: But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think; (3. 793-95)' For Byron, the power of words as things comes not from any transcendent coalescing of... | |
 | Susan M. Stabile - History - 2004 - 310 pages
...further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. Cloth printing io y 87654321 But words are things, and a small drop of ink Falling like dew upon a thought — Lord Byron, Donjuán, canto 3 Preface: Mnemosyne's Gift ix Introduction: The Genealogy of Memory... | |
 | 王之 - Literary Collections - 2005 - 336 pages
...Marianne; and my son, Henry for their understanding and support of all my endeavours in my life. 16 ESSAYS But WORDS are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling...That which, makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. — Lord Byron 18 fflT i=t~THT mm \ ~^ ftfc^A^ ' ; ffaS r^j [fa ' ' cfPBSBS^5fe— T ' H§§*Mffi '... | |
 | M. Ed Msw McDermott, Msw Joan Stewart - Education - 2005 - 220 pages
...Ciassicai Relaxation, 10 Volume set, 1991, Delta Music Inc. Carmelina Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90064 But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling...which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think... Lord Byron, 19th-century English poet (from Canto the Third) About the Authors Janice McDermott, M.Ed,... | |
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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... 
