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. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys... The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No - Page 58publié par - 1863Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...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...on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almo.t kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ;... | |
| 1837 - 638 pages
...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 precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to... | |
| American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838 - 1182 pages
...the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. They are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's...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
...triumph, — the power of genius. To any one who feels, with Milton, that books are " as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth...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... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1839 - 330 pages
...wisdom or genius. Listen to this magnificent sentence out of the volume now lying open before me — "Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature —...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...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. LEST some should persuade ye, lords and commons, that these arguments of learned... | |
| George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 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 bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man... | |
| lady Henrietta Georgiana M. Chatterton - 1841 - 330 pages
...purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 1 know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth...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... | |
| 1841 - 640 pages
...was a good house; and the success of the piece was complete. OUR MONTHLY CRYPT. " As good almost to kill a man, as kill a good book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but be who destroys a good book, kills Reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many... | |
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