 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 740 pages
...waste so inucli 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. " And why ? because it brings self-approbation j Whereas the other, after nil its glare, Shouts, bridges,... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...fear, or grow love-mad, Yet sinks at last to earth, and dreams in quiet. BARRY CORNWALL. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. THE PROCESSION OF THE SEA DEITIES. - A fine passage in Mr. KINQSLEY'S recently published poem Andromeda.... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...MONTHLY." Kindness by secret sympathy is tied, For noble souls in nature are allied. DRYDEN. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. BYRON. Who will not give Some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, For others' good, is a poor, frozen... | |
 | 1861 - 402 pages
...retired acts, we have the most complete demonstration of the greatness of his spirit. " The drying of a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore." " We make a great mistake when we confine deeds of eminence to public scenes and magnificent occasions.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...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 shedding seas of gore. And why? because it brings self-approbation; Whereas the other, after all its glare, Shouts, bridges,... | |
 | Richard Ray (of Milton.) - 1861 - 190 pages
...hand would almost involuntarily minister the required relief; and he felt that, — " The drying np a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore." Few, indeed, must have been the instances in which the applicant was not more or less successful with... | |
 | Edward Wilmot Blyden - 1862 - 186 pages
...retired acts, we have the most complete demonstration of the greatness of his spirit. " The drying of a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore." We make a great mistake when we confine deeds of eminence to public scenes and magnificent occasions.... | |
 | Wybert Reeve - 1862 - 224 pages
...doubtless, was acceptable, but why make charity the vehicle for display ? Byron says : — " The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore." A beautiful sentiment, expressed in a beautiful couplet ; but let the tear be dried in secret. Then... | |
 | 1866 - 1106 pages
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...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 shedding seas of gore. And why ? because it brings self-approbation j 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. 
