...feeling — right or wrong ; And feeling, in n poet, is the source Of ill hers' feeling; but they arc such liars, And take all colours— like the hands of dyers. But words nre things, and a email drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes...

...quite, "when Greece was youug, Yet in these times he might have done much worse : His strain display'd some feeling — right or wrong ; And feeling, in...take all colours — like the hands of dyers. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes...

...strain display'd some feeling — right or wrong ; And feeling, in a poet, is the source Of other's feeling ; but they are such liars, And take all colours — like the hands of dyers. But words are things ; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...

...a wealthy or a royal patron, there might have been much force in the charge of Byron : — " Poets are such liars, And take all colours like the hands of dyers." Yet, if there is real character and nobleness in a poet's work, we shall find it by study of his writings,...

...sentence of his Defence of Poetry, and the question of Cadurcis recalls the lines in Don Juan : " Poets are such liars, " And take all colours like the hands of dyers." After all, it is questionable whether Mr. Disraeli has been more successful in describing Byron than...