| Sydney Barrington Elliot - 1892 - 288 sidor
...Lancet and Observer. Wright, Amer. Jour. Obstet., January, 1878. CHAPTER III. Cases (continued). " Tis strange — but true ; for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction." — BYRON. THE following cases, carefully selected from well-known authors, from prominent physicians... | |
| Sydney Barrington Elliot - 1893 - 300 sidor
...Lancet and Observer. Wright, Amer. Jour. Obstet., January, 1878. CHAPTER III. Cases (continued). " "Tis strange — but true ; for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction." —BYRON. THE following cases, carefully selected from well-known authors, from prominent physicians... | |
| 1895 - 768 sidor
...All that I know is, that the facts I state Are true as truth has ever been of lute. Byron, DJ vi. 86, 'Tis strange, but true, for truth is always strange...told, How much would novels gain by the exchange ! How diflercntly the world would men behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places change : The new world... | |
| H. G. Somerville - 1896 - 240 sidor
...knowledge of human life is small, and whose ignorance of history is entire. As the poet pithily puts it — "Truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction :...told, How much would novels gain by the exchange." Admitting this, and judging from the facts that we are possessed of, what marvellously romantic deeds... | |
| 1896 - 1224 sidor
...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... | |
| Cynthia May Westover Alden - 1896 - 402 sidor
...IMPOLITE !" — Page 140. BUSHY A ROMANCE FOUNDED ON FACT BY CYNTHIA M. WESTOVER ILLUSTRATED BY JA WALKER "Tis strange — but true ; For truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction. — BYRON, Don Juan NEW YORK THE MORSE COMPANY 1896 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRAE! 27860B ASTOR, LENOX... | |
| William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 sidor
...precious, if not all divine, And what dilates the pow'rs must needs refine. — Cowper: 'Charity.* '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... | |
| Harry Levin - 1986 - 566 sidor
...crust of accumulated literary tradition. Byron's proverbial line gains meaning from its poetic context: Tis strange, — but true; for truth is always strange;...the exchange! How differently the world would men beholdl Hugo, a past master of illusion, knew that absolute reality could never be put into writing.... | |
| Thomas Middleton, William Rowley - 1966 - 312 sidor
...6 Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years. Marianne Moore "T'is strange but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction. Lord Byron I cannot and will not vouch for the falseness of any of these lies. I would not be in the... | |
| Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 sidor
...listed in ODEP and Apperson) goes back to Byron's Don Juan, canto XIV, stanza loi, which begins, " 'Tis strange,— but true; for truth is always strange;/ Stranger than fiction." 676.7/660.7 ELIJAH, RESTORER OF THE CHURCH IN ZION See entry 151.15. 676.15/660.15 THE LIGHT OF INSPIRATION... | |
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