| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 דפים
...enhance, To waste so much gold for a little dross, As hath been done, mere conquest to advance. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than...gore. And why ? because it brings self-approbation j Whereas the other, after all its glare, Shouts, bridges, arches, pensions from a nation, Which (it... | |
| Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1884 - 626 דפים
...AMD CO., PRINTERS, 172, ST. JOHN STREET, E.fl ItltL. AUV EKL 13Z.K. In the Battle of this Life, " The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore." WAR ! ! What is more terrible than War ? Outraged Nature. She kills and kills, and is never tired of... | |
| 1866 - 1106 דפים
...splendor, around the throne of the great 1 AM. Keep, it therefore, as the maxim of your minds, tftat " The drying up a single tear, has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore." Then go, and be the physician of them whom medicine can not cure, and the comforter of those whom time... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1866 - 468 דפים
...friend BRUTUS. 2. AL' BI OX is a name sometimes applied to England. THE EVILS OF WAR. H. CLAY. " The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore."—BYRON. 1. WAR, pestilence, and famine, by the common consent of mankind, arc the three greatest... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 דפים
...Of honest fame, than »bedding seas of gore. IV. And why ? — because It brings self- approbation ; Whereas t [stare. Though they may make Corruption gape or Yet, In the end, except in freedom's battles, Are nothing... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 דפים
...alone, remember'd or forgot. Ch.H. in.112. I awoke one morning and found myself famous. Ib. Introd. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. Byron,DJ vin.3. What is the end of fame ? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper ; Some... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 דפים
...enhance, To waste sn much gold for a little dross, As hath been done mere conquest to advance : The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. IV, And why? Because it brings self-approbation; Whereas the other, after all its glare, Shouts, bridges,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 דפים
...strange coincidence," to use a phrase By which such things are settled now-a-days. Canto vi. St. 78. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. Canto viii. St. 3. Thrice happy he whose name has been well spelt In the despatch : I knew a man whose... | |
| 1868 - 396 דפים
...of kindness, which steals on the heart like rich perfumes, to bless and to cheer. The drying up of a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. Original. A WAIF. BY MC JOHNSON. Flowreta blooming 'Long life's pathway, How much of hope and joy they... | |
| Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - 1869 - 676 דפים
...borrowing quotations from this poem. For, instance, in speaking of military glory, he says :— "The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. "And why?—because it brings self-approbation; Whereas the other, after all its glare, Shouts, bridges,... | |
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