 I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book....  English Prose Writings of John Milton - Page 314de John Milton - 1889 - 446 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1837 - 638 pages
...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men ! A good book is the... | |
 | American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838 - 1182 pages
...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. They are as lively and as vigorously productive, as...and down, may chance to spring up armed men." And, sir, when our spirits are brought into actual contact with this living principle in books — I mean... | |
 | 1838 - 540 pages
...by death in his last triumph, — the power of genius. To any one who feels, with Milton, that books are " as lively and as vigorously productive as those...up and down, may chance to spring up. armed men," how awful must be the conviction that even penitence for having uttered a wrong book, cannot kill its... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. LICENSERS OF THE PRESS.... | |
 | 1840 - 448 pages
...preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive...kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive,...teeth , and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 330 pages
...preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious... | |
 | lady Henrietta Georgiana M. Chatterton - 1841 - 330 pages
...preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 1 know they are as lively and as vigorously productive...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 326 pages
...preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive...fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chante to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth;... | |
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