 | Lewis Ransom Fiske - 1898 - 406 pages
...opportune moment and fired him with ambition to surpass others in laudable actions. Milton observed that "a good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit." He might have added that such a book imparts its own vitality to its master readers. It arouses... | |
 | Annie Dennis Bursch, Frederick C. Bursch - 1905 - 132 pages
...Books to him were as a guide in his youth and an entertainment for his old age. He believed with Milton that ' a good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.' " Can any of you tell me how it... | |
 | 1914 - 668 pages
...round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, our pastime and our happiness will grow" — that, "a good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life" — that "a book fitly chosen is... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 pages
...it, poetry, as a record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best lives. Milton said that a good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. To Carlyle it was the thought of... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - 1999 - 288 pages
...'preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them', and that 'a good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life'.29 It was for the Romantics to... | |
 | Thomas McFarland - 2000 - 268 pages
...is also clearly a life that stands in opposition to that nothingness. Likewise Milton, in declaring that 'a good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life',1 almost seems to imply that the... | |
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a good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit... 