| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 186 pages
...But great things spring from little : — -Would you think, That in our youth, as dangerous a passion As e'er brought man and woman to the brink Of ruin,...behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places change ! The new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 176 pages
...never guess, 111 bet you millions, milliards — It all sprung from a harmless game at billiards. 01. Tis strange — but true ; for Truth is always strange,...behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places change ! The hew world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 346 pages
...never guess, I'll bet you millions, milliards — It all sprung from a harmless game at billiards. cr. 'Tis strange, — but true; for Truth is always strange,...behold! How oft would vice and virtue places change! The new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the royal seas Would show mankind their... | |
| 1824 - 596 pages
...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 N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 916 pages
...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 ! The new world would be nothing to the old. If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...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 - 1832 - 542 pages
...guess, I 'll bet you millions, milliardsIt 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 ! The new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1833 - 332 pages
...satire. It is not clear that Adeline and Juan Will fall ; but if they do, 'twill be their ruin. XCVII. c. But great things spring from little : — Would...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 Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...: 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....behold! How oft would vice and virtue places change! The new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind their... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...serious plan, And Pain and Prudence make and mar the man. (2) . (I) [ " Truth is always strangeStranger than Fiction. If it could be told, How much would...behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places change! The new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind their... | |
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