 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don Juan (Legendary character) - 1821 - 232 pages
...they are such liars, And take all 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...they are such liars, And take all 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... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - British - 1824 - 314 pages
...Emperor of Austria prisoner, though his army consisted of 80,000 men. * " But words are things ; — and a small drop of ink, " Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces .' That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." " They beat us in Egypt, and took... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1824 - 574 pages
...have learned to think " very 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...they are such liars, And take all 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... | |
 | William Samuel Cardell - Language and languages - 1825 - 224 pages
...Turkey, its waters, yet unstained. 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... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1829 - 356 pages
...some words, a few passages — leave 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,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 542 pages
...they are such liars, And take all 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...they are such liars, And take all 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...might have lived as long as Sheridan, and outlived as much as poor Brinsley. 1 ["But words are things, and a small drop of Ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which make* thousands, perhaps millions, think, 'Til strange, the shortest letter which... | |
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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... 
