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" The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. "
Columbian Historical Novels - Page 399
by John Roy Musick - 1895
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The Southern Botanic Journal, Volumes 1-2

1838 - 860 pages
...act of kindness, and charitable deed towards our fellow mortal, is more precious to him : — •' The drying up of a single tear has more •Of honest fame, tJian shedding seas of gore;" We have been accused of playing the Hypocrite. This charge we have always...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1884 - 656 pages
...and the fatherless will come upon us. Let us remember, too, in these warlike days that — The drying of a single tear has more • Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. Acting in this spirit, ind to this end, during the year on which we have now entered, we shall not...
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Punch, Volumes 114-115

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1898 - 682 pages
...the fruits of their labour, regarding it as part of their glory. But in the midst of 'THE DRYING UP A SINGLE TEAR HAS MORE OF HONEST FAME THAN SHEDDING SEAS OF GORE." ! , .* A captain of dragoons was ordered out with his troop to forage for provvisions. They reached...
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The Army and Navy of America: Containing a View of the Heroic Adventures ...

Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 pages
...— End of the War — Courtship and Marriage of Washington— Prayer of Washington. " The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. And why 1 because it brings self-approbation, Whereas the other, after all its glare, Shoots, bridges,...
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Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Elegant Extracts ..., Volume 1

1847 - 540 pages
...kindness, though disgust Hath wean'd it from all worldlings. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 10. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. BYRON'S Don Juan. 11. Which seeks again those chords to bind Which human woe hath rent apart ; To heal...
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The School Reader. Fifth Book: Designed as a Sequel to Sanders' Fouth Reader ...

Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pages
...sentence, by which their due importance and meaning are best expressed. EXAMPLES. 1. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. 2. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oil might win, By fearing to attempt. 3. Judge...
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Notes and Queries

1887 - 678 pages
...is the " gifted but unhappy man " from whom I saw the other day these lines quoted 1 — The drying of a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. B. WALFOKD, MA " Had the celebrated words, ' He who is without sin among you, let him cast the first...
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The War with Mexico Reviewed

Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1850 - 312 pages
...annexation of Canada in due time to the United States. CHAPTER XIX. MILITARY GLORY. " The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore." BYRON. " BUT glory, glory !" sliout the defenders of the war. " Much that you say of its evils may be true,...
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The War with Mexico Reviewed

Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1850 - 324 pages
...annexation of Canada in due time to the United States. CHAPTER XIX. MILITARY GLOKY. " The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore." BYRON. " BUT glory, glory !" shout the defenders of the war. " Much that you say of its evils may be true,...
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Notes and Queries

1887 - 678 pages
...is the " gifted but unhappy man " from whom I saw the other day these lines quoted ? — The drying of a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of коте. B. WALFORD, MA " Had the celebrated words, ' He who is without sin among you, let him cast...
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