Tis strange, — but true ; for truth is always strange ; Stranger than fiction : if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange ; How differently the world would men behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places change I The new world... Don Juan: Cantos XII.-XIII.-and XIV - Pàgina 165per George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 168 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1824 - 596 pàgines
...Dang it ! who'd have thought it ':" Sire i , The Nestor's of the sporting generation, &c. ***** Til strange, but true ; for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction: if it could he told, How much would Novels gain by the exchange, How differently the world would men hehold! Row... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pàgines
...milliards It all sprung from a harmless game at billiards. 'Tis strange — but true ; for Truth is alwnyg strange , Stranger than Fiction : if it could be told,...exchange ! How differently the world would men behold ! ST. 1-10. 317 Tin' new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seta Would... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 332 pàgines
...But great things spring from little : — Would you That in our youth, as dangerous a passion [think, As e'er brought man and woman to the brink Of ruin,...exchange ; How differently the world would men behold I How oft would vice and virtue places change I The new world would be nothing to the old, If some... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 334 pàgines
...guess, I'll bet you millions, milliards — It all sprung from a harmless game at billiards. ci. T is strange, — but true ; for truth is always strange...behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places change I The new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - 346 pàgines
...the novelist who aims at improving the understanding or touching the heart." — GIFFORD.] (2) [ " Truth is always strange — Stranger than fiction....be told, How much would Novels gain by the exchange ? " &c. — BYRON. See anlt, vol. ii. p. 60.] Time have I lent — I would their debt were less —... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - 340 pàgines
...who aims at improving the understanding or touching the heart."— OirruiD.] (3) [ — — " Truth w always strange — Stranger than fiction. If it could...told. How much would Novels gain by the exchange? * &c — Bvaox. SM omit. TOL U. n 80.J Time have I lent — I would their debt were less — To flow'ry... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 342 pàgines
...But great things spring from little : — Would you That in our youth, as dangerous a passion [think, As e'er brought man and woman to the brink Of ruin,...behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places change I The new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind... | |
| George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pàgines
...Enchantment bows to Wisdom's serious plan, And Pain and Prudence make and mar the man. ( 2 ) (1) [ " Truth is always strange— Stranger than Fiction....How oft would vice and virtue places change! The new wprld would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind their souls'... | |
| 1842 - 818 pàgines
...TRUTHS. " 'Ti.i strange, hut trae ; for tmth is always strange — Stranger than notion ; if it should be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange...behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places change !" It is said, " when woman hesitates, she is lost ;" but the proud spirit of the resolute Evelyn did... | |
| 1842 - 740 pàgines
...undertaken to defend their system by arguments drawn from Holy Writ. ' "Pis strange — but true ; for trulh is always strange ; Stranger than fiction ; if it...told, How much would novels gain by the exchange.' This state of things has naturally drawn towards the churches of America, the attention of Christians... | |
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