 ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them....  The Life of John Milton - Page 252de Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...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: who kills a man... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...which bred them. I know they are as lively, as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragons' t^eth ; 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 : who kills a man,... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...was whofe progeny they are ; nay they do preferve as in a violl the pureft efficacie and extradtion of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigoroufly productive, as thofe fabulous Dragons teeth ; and being fown up and down, may chance to... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. Nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet, on the other hand, unless weariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...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 : who kills a man... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...in them to be as active as the soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...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 : who kills a man... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they 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 vigorously productive as those fabulous dragons' teeth, and being sown up and down may chance to spring... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...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. Who kills a man,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...iu them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...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. Who kills a man,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 pages
...them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...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... | |
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