 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 σελίδες
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as...intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and vigorously productive as those fabulous dragons' teeth, and being sown up and down may chance to spring... | |
 | 1852 - 406 σελίδες
...to see in some quiet inlet. " For," exclaims Milton, "books 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." Does it not wring your heart, dear fellow Bibliophilos, to hear of Chaucer in Websterian spelling ?... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 σελίδες
...shrines of Liberty. He venerates the spirits of books; "for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as the soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - 446 σελίδες
...and do sharpest .justice on them as malefactors : for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active...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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 σελίδες
...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active...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 - 538 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 σελίδες
...life 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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 528 σελίδες
...vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men. For books are not absolutely dead things, but contain a progeny of 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 ; and being sown... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 566 σελίδες
...justice on them as malefactors. 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...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... | |
 | H. L. Hix - 1995 - 234 σελίδες
...famous argument against the regulation of publishing, John Milton treats books as pure entities able to "preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." He describes them as "reason itself," the "image of God, as it were, in the eye" (720). Where books... | |
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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. 
