 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 páginas
...selie Such monuments of human state as these ?J »0 [** Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul e horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from...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 - 712 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1847 - 486 páginas
...injured, their resurrection is sure. " Books," says Milton, " are not absolutely dead things ; they contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are. The precious life-blood of a master-spirit, treasured up to a life beyond life... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1848 - 796 páginas
...as malefactors : for Books,' he affirms, 'are 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 - 1849 - 708 páginas
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul en. To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade,...song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord ! dragons' teeth ; and being sown up und down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 páginas
...worthy of being engraven on the memory of our readers. " Books are no* absolutely dead things, bnt do streets, she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the o whose progey they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that... | |
 | 1850 - 604 páginas
...powers in advocating the side of liberty. "Books," said he, "are not absolutely dead ' things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active...productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being 8own up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 páginas
...he, " are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in liiem, to be as active лз that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do...as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown tip and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used,... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 páginas
...was whofe progeny they are ; nay they do preferve as in a violl the pureft efficacie and extradtion of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigoroufly productive, as thofe fabulous Dragons teeth ; and being fown up and down, may chance to... | |
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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. 
