 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...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... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...enthusiasm of genius and scholarship, upon the 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1853 - 526 pages
...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 - 1853 - 622 pages
...tne church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean therm.-lves ал well ai men. For foration of the precipice. At the mouth of the cave sale two figures; the first, bo ae active as tbat soul was whose progeny they are I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 566 pages
...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... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors : for books are not absolutely dead things, but d< contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nny, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of thnt living intellect that... | |
 | 1896 - 858 pages
...here. ' For books are not absolutely dead things ' — so said Milton — ' but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. Many a man lives, a burden to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pages
...ever-widening circles. The great thinkers of our race still live and act through their works, " for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect which bred them." " A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured... | |
 | Great Britain - 1854 - 500 pages
...wisdom ; " And books are the legacies they have left us. " Books are not absolutely dead things, but ib contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose 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. 
