 | Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1884 - 626 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1866 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...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... | |
 | 1868 - 396 pages
...performance of its office 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... | |
 | 1853 - 322 pages
...early discipline of light and shade, It must be holier. WILLIS. UjlllfC PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY, 1856. The drying up of a single tear, has more Of honest fame, than shedding esaa of gore. BTEON. JD" SPECIMEN COPIES sent free of charge to ill who request them. JIT" Some subscribe™... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...To waste sn much gold for a little dross, As hath been done mere conquest to advance : The drying up tiny ; Though thy death shall still seem near To thy wish, but as IV, And why? Because it brings self-approbation; Whereas the other, after all its glare, Shouts, bridges,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...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... | |
 | Jesse Clement - 1869 - 490 pages
...fly from public sight; Domestic worth — that shuns too strong a L'ght LORD LYTTLETON. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. BYRON. Woman may possess an equal share of the elements of greatness with man, but she has not an equal opportunity... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 pages
...Exuberant in the shadow it supplies, Its fruit on earth, its growth above the skies. COW PER. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. BYRON'S Don Juan. Unfee'd, the calls of nature she obeys, Not led by profit, nor allur'd by praise.... | |
 | Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - 1869 - 676 pages
...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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The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. 
