 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Liczba stron: 692
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a ( potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dra: -us' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | 1857 - Liczba stron: 602
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial...extraction of that living intellect that bred them." Books have always been deemed a power ; the press is termed a fourth estate ; and yet art, pictorial... | |
 | Liczba stron: 626
...contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose priigeny they ate : nay, tliey do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of tliatliving intellect that bred llicm, — Ibid. This is true liberty, when free-born men, Having to... | |
 | Charles Louis Schönberg - 1844 - Liczba stron: 104
...them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are: nay, ihey do preserve, 'u in H viol, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. — Many n man lives a burden to the earth ; hut a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit,... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - Liczba stron: 572
...contain a progeny of life in TKerrT to be as active as that soulwas whose progeny Alicy are ; nay, thfy do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extrac\tion...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... | |
 | James William Massie - 1846 - Liczba stron: 572
...such "do contain a potency within them as active as was that soul whose progeny they are ; nay," if " they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy...extraction of that living intellect that bred them ;" and if it be " almost as good kill a man as kill a good book :" since " he who destroys a good book... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - Liczba stron: 712
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose zontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind...the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monar rigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - Liczba stron: 712
...in them, to be as active as that soul »hose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a rial, d waters in which it falleth so bitter, that men tasting...think they cannot admire as they ought the power an dragona' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - Liczba stron: 618
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny 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 ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - Liczba stron: 566
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial...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... | |
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... 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. 
