 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 sidor
...dealt in fiction. BYRON'S Don Juan. My smiles must be sincere, or not at all. BYRON'S Don Juan, T is strange, but true ; for truth is always strange, Stranger...exchange ! How differently the world would men behold ! BYHON'S Don Juan. I know the action was extremely wrong ; I own it, I deplore it, I condemn it ;... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 sidor
...erunt qui me finxisse loquantur. OVID. I shall speak facts ; but some will say I deal in fiction. " Tis strange, but true : for truth is always strange ; Stranger than fiction." BYRON. Facta juvenum, consilia mediocrium, vota senum. HESIOD. — Actions from youth, advice from... | |
 | F. J - 1870 - 346 sidor
...Aug. 20,1862. and that of the tritest, is the satirical poet's stanza beginning, 'Tis strange,—but true ; for Truth is always strange, Stranger than...exchange ! How differently the world would men behold! Racine was writing like his courtly self, when he glorified in his preface to "Athalie," a prince of... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 354 sidor
...Westminster Abbey, graced by all the pomps that heraldry can show. For, according to the cynical poet, Truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction : if...behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places change 1 with the handy-dandy celerity desiderated by King Lear. In dealing with such men of blood as Almagro... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 sidor
...differently the world would men beheld I How oft would vice and virtue places change ! Stanger that fiction : if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange ! The new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 384 sidor
...never guess, I'll bet you millions, milliards — It all sprung from a harmless game at billiards. 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 moral seas Would show mankind... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 380 sidor
...never guess, I'll bet you millions, milliards — It all pprnng from a harmless game at billiards. 'Tia 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... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 sidor
...: no dirge, except the hollow sea's, Mourns o'er the beauty of the Cyclades. Id. EUPHEMISM. TIUJTH is always strange, Stranger than fiction : if it could...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... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 sidor
...Will leave us doubly serious shortly after. Facta canam, fuerunt, qui me finxisse loquentur (Ovid) — 'Tis strange, but true ; for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction. Festina lente— A hand may first, and then a lip be kind. Forsan miseros meliora sequentur ( Virgil)... | |
 | J. M. Morphis - 1874 - 620 sidor
...' The writer takes this account of Mr. Rose, cum grano salts, but it may be true. The poet sayeth : "Tis strange — but true ; for truth is always strange ; Stranger than fiction. The fondness of the writer for localities made famous by the heroic achievements of the founders of... | |
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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 ! The new world... 
