 ... 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 252by Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, He is, h , dra: -us' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 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 intellect that bred them." Books have always been deemed a power ; the press is termed a fourth estate ; and yet art, pictorial... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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...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... | |
 | James William Massie - Belgium - 1846 - 572 pages
...them as active as was that soul whose progeny they are ; nay," if " they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and 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 - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, e moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On...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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...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 thoe fabulous dragon'» teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet,... | |
 | 1847 - 486 pages
...precious life-blood of a master-spirit, treasured up to a life beyond life ; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." They live with each succeeding age, and become the fountains of truth and knowledge to all mankind.... | |
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