 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy t Chambers dra: -us' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | Christianity - 1841 - 500 pages
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are : nay, they do preserve as in a viol the piirest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that hrcd them. Many a man lives... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...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 intellect that bred...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...active as that soul »hose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a rial, the purest efficacy falleth so bitter, that men tasting thorn die thereof....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
...active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy e, disastrous twilight sheds On half 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,... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...are not 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 of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - Blacks - 1848 - 796 pages
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them ; they are as lively,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy t his praise. Hail, universal Lord ! und down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pages
...active as that soul whose progey 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 rigorously productive, aa those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to... | |
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For 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. 
