 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
 | 1896 - 1224 pàgines
...secret soul to show, For Truth denies all eloquence to Woe. *. BYBON— The Cortair. Canto III. St. 22. /. BYRON— Don .Juan. Canto XIV. St. 101. A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pàgines
...Who, hemm'd with bands of sturdiest rogues about, Find some strange succour, and come virgins out. 4 Truth Is always strange— Stranger than fiction. *If it could be told, IIuw much would Novels gain by the exchange ?" &c. BYRON. Secante*, p. 110.] 5 [The title of a novel,... | |
 | Cyrus Townsend Brady - 1902 - 414 pàgines
...truth herself, if clouded with a frown, Must have some solemn proof to pass her down.1' CHCICHILL " "Tis strange — but true, for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction." BYRON " Variety 's the very spice of lift." Cowrut Copyright, 1900 and 1903, by JB Lippincott Company.... | |
 | 1902 - 530 pàgines
...the God ot the Christians. If He is the true God, He will aid me, and I will believe in Him. VII. " "Tis strange, but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction." i A rapid march followed along Uie border of the Rhine, through Gaul, and through Italy till Verona... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 652 pàgines
...guess, I 'll bet you millions, milliards 1 — It all sprung from a harmless game at billiards. cI. T is strange, — but true ; for Truth is always strange — Stranger than fiction : if it could be told, c. How much would novels gain by the exchange ! How differently the World would men behold ! How oft... | |
 | Annie Lydia Smith - 1906 - 364 pàgines
...rising of another sun events would shape and change the course of his wooing. CHAPTER XL AT THE KIOSK. " 'Tis strange — but true, for truth is always strange: Stranger than fiction." THE wet, dismal morning ended in sunshine, and before the hour of luncheon the sky was serenely beautiful,... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pàgines
...knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? MILTON, Areopagitica Truth — Continued Tis strange, — but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction. BYRON, Don Juan, Canto xiv, st. 101 "Truth," I cried, "though the Heavens crush me for following her;... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 pàgines
...precious, if not all divine, And what dilates the pow'rs must needs refine. 5376 Cowper: Charity. Line 331. 'Tis strange, but true, for truth is always strange...; if It could be told, How much would novels gain hy the exchange! How differently the world would men behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places... | |
 | Edward Adolf Sonnenschein - 1917 - 450 pàgines
...as he might. SCOTT, Lay of the Last Minstrel. 6. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing. BYRON. / 8. 'Tis strange, but true ; for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction. BYRON, Don Juan. g. And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.... | |
 | Frederick Erastus Pierce - 1918 - 356 pàgines
...thinker though he was, he was a pioneer for modern realists, of the type which he himself describes: Tis strange, — but true; for truth is always strange;...exchange! How differently the world would men behold I How oft would vice and virtue places change! The new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus... | |
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