 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1875 - 444 sidor
...You'll never guess, I'll bet you millions, milliardsIt all sprung from a harmless game of 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... | |
 | 1875 - 592 sidor
...assure you. can re-produce them. Dr. Whewell used to say, Aa/wrii8ta CXOVTIS Siadaa-ova-iv »XX,;X»(f. 'Tis strange, but true, for truth is always strange ; Stranger than fiction. Withal, whatever Materialism may do for the head, it will never satisfy the heart of man, continuously.... | |
 | Henry Fishwick - 1875 - 524 sidor
...Publicity the true cure of Social Evils. LIVERPOOL LIFE, its pleasures, practices, and pastimes, etc. * * " 'Tis strange, but true : for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction." Reprinted from the " Liverpool Mercury." Liverpool : Egerton Smith and Co., " Mercury " Office, Lord... | |
 | Henry Fishwick - 1875 - 464 sidor
...Publicity the true cure of Social Evils. LIVERPOOL LIFE, its pleasures, practices, and pastimes, etc. * * " 'Tis strange, but true : for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction." Reprinted from the " Liverpool Mercury." Liverpool : Egerton Smith and Co., "Mercury" Office, Lord... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1876 - 432 sidor
...BIOGRAPHY. CHAPTERS ON THE STRANGE AND WONDERFUL IN HUMAN LIFE. BY EDWIN PAXTON HOOD. " "Tis stranjie, but true, for truth is always strange— Stranger...told, How much, would novels gain by the exchange." " Bea! life has extravagances that would nut/f^^ltQ^d^^tjyir in n well-written romance— they would... | |
 | William Green (of Brighton.) - 1876 - 354 sidor
...EDITOR. ROSE HILL TERRACE, BRIGHTON, December i<)th, 1875. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OP A CHEAP JACK. 'Tis strange, but true ; for truth is always strange — Stranger than fiction. IN giving a series of short sketches of the life, manners, and customs of Cheap Johns, vulgo Jacks,... | |
 | William Green (of Brighton.) - 1876 - 350 sidor
...EDITOR. ROSE HILL TERRACE, BRIGHTON, December lytk, 1875, THE LIFE AND A1)VENTUKES OF A CHEAP JACK. Tis strange, but true ; for truth is always strange — Stranger than fiction. IN giving a series of short sketches of the life, manners, and customs of Cheap Johns, vnlgo Jacks,... | |
 | 1877 - 362 sidor
...while you live, tell TRUTH, and shame the Devil. SHAKESPERE, King Heury IV., part i. act Ш. sc. 1. — 'Tis strange — but true ; for TRUTH is always strange ; Stranger than fiction. — BYRON, Don Juan, canto xiv. st. 101. — TRUTH crushed to earth shall rise again : The eternal... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 sidor
...never guess, I'll bet you millions, nulliards : 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 moral seas Would show mankind their... | |
 | James Grant - 1878 - 350 sidor
...Remarkable as some of the coincidences in our story may appear, we must remember that Byron says : — " Tis strange, but true ; for truth is always strange ; Stranger than fiction." It may be imagined how the day — one of the last in March — was passed on board that princely yacht,... | |
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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... 
