 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 oldal
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life iu them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve 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. And yet on the other... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 492 oldal
...well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain*...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 oldal
...well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 566 oldal
...well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 oldal
...the least brains.— WB Clulow. contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as...lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being 1 sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 oldal
...least brains.— WB Clulow. 456. contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as...lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 oldal
...in the Church and Commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." Milton did not forget that unlicensed printing might be productive of... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 oldal
...them to be 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...know they are as lively and as vigorously productive .43 those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.... | |
 | 1856 - 790 oldal
...careful what books they read. No man can deny this. JOHN MILTON said, and he knew all about it — "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. A Good Book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 308 oldal
...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...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... | |
| |
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. 
