 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men! Byron. Beneath the rule of men entirely great. The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch enchanter's wand! itself a nothing! But taking sorcery from the master hand, To paralyze... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1854 - 412 pages
...weapons, my good Lord. RICHELIEU (who has seated himself as to write, lifts the pen). True,— THIS ! Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanter's wand ! — itself a nothing ! — But taking sorcery from the master-hand... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...niee seales the motives of the great, Ye eannot know what ye have never tried. Bulseer's Riehelieu. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The areh enehanter's wand ! itself a nothing ! But taking soreery from the master hand, To paralyze... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid. EDWARD BULWER LYTTON. Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2. Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. HENRY TAYLOR. Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 5. The world knows nothing of its greatest men.... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...Men shall wear softer hearts, And shudder at the butcheries of war, As now at other murders. BEYANT. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. How like a fiend may man Ire made, Plying the foul and monstrous trade Whose harvest-field is human... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1863 - 512 pages
...weapons, my good lord. Rich* [who IMS seated himself as to write, lifts tlie pen.] True,— THIS ! Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanter's wand ! — itself a nothing ! — But taking sorcery from the master-hand... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - American drama - 1865 - 592 pages
...witchcraft, some. Not so ; my art was JUSTICE ! — The Pen mightier than the Sword. .... True THIS ! Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch- enchanter's wand — itself a nothing! By taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyze... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...good are better made by ill, As odors crushed are sweeter still. ibid. St. 3. EDWARD BULWER LYTTON. Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2. Take away the sword, States can be saved without it. lUd. In the lexicon... | |
 | Military art and science - 1865 - 598 pages
...of " Richelieu," Sir Edward Bnlwer Lytton puts into the mouth of that profound statesman, the words, "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword." This was the origin of the phrase. Near the beginning of our war, a distinguished publisher of books, George... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...Alone the poet's numbers ; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers. John Quincy Adams. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. Ld.Lytton, Richelieu, n.2. PHTTTENCE— set Eepcntanco. Death is deferred, and penitence has room To... | |
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. 
