 ... 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 - Pàgina 252per Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - 446 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 526 pàgines
...life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. I know they are as lively and vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth...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 book. Many a man lives a burden... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pàgines
...in them, to be as active as that soul whoee progeny they arc ; nay, they do preserve, as in n vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, ami as vigorously productive, as those fabulous ilrai^n«' teeth : ami being sown up and down, may... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | William Spalding - 1854 - 446 pàgines
...whose progeny they are ; nny, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of thnt living 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 spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 566 pàgines
...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 li vely and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down... | |
 | Thomas Price - 1854 - 430 pàgines
...the Surest efficacy and extraction of thnt living intellect that bred them. I know they are as vely, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, mny oh.incc to spring up armed men." ttn.roN1* "Ar^op^irMm. ~LLANDOV£RY: WILLIAM BEES. LONDON: LONGMAN... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - 1854 - 368 pàgines
...of life in them j . . they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." — MILTOK. V BOSTON: A. TOMPKIN^AND BB MUSSEY & CO. I ! TI.DK ' ', ,'„ .- Entered according to Act... | |
 | Alden Smith - 1997 - 244 pàgines
...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." On the emphasis of the theme of overcoming death at the end of the Metcmorphoses, see Ernst A. Schmidt.... | |
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