 | 1837 - 638 páginas
...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 ! A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to... | |
 | American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838 - 1182 páginas
...the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. They are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's...and down, may chance to spring up armed men." And, sir, when our spirits are brought into actual contact with this living principle in books — I mean... | |
 | 1838 - 540 páginas
...triumph, — the power of genius. To any one who feels, with Milton, that books are " as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's...up and down, may chance to spring up. armed men," how awful must be the conviction that even penitence for having uttered a wrong book, cannot kill its... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 páginas
...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. LICENSERS OF THE PRESS. LEST some should persuade ye, lords and commons, that these arguments of learned... | |
 | 1840 - 448 páginas
...purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's...kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 páginas
...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...kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 páginas
...purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are 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 hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 330 páginas
...purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious... | |
 | 1841 - 640 páginas
...was a good house; and the success of the piece was complete. OUR MONTHLY CRYPT. " As good almost to kill a man, as kill a good book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but be who destroys a good book, kills Reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 326 páginas
...purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chante to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth;... | |
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I know they are 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 hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book.... 
