 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 738 pages
...te 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 as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons1 teeth ; and being sown up « de tant de vieux et... | |
 | Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 414 pages
...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. I know they are as lively and aa vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down may chance to... | |
 | Orator - 1864 - 186 pages
...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. 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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. 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...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 as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ;l and being sown up and down, may chance to... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Great Britain - 1866 - 328 pages
...as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the honest 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 500 pages
...was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and excraction 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... | |
 | Gems - English poetry - 1866 - 168 pages
...they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that livsng 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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Annie Kane - Blind - 1867 - 252 pages
...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. 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... | |
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... 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 spring up armed men. 
