 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood...master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON'S Speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing. THUS far then I have been... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2010 - 360 pages
...pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life. Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages doe not oft recover the losse of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole Nations fare the worse.... | |
 | Marion Moore Hill - Hate groups - 2003 - 240 pages
...whimsical little sayings to walls and shelves in the reading room, mostly in praise of books: A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. —John Milton, Areopagitica It struck Juanita as an interesting quirk in her new... | |
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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 a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in... 
