 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...monuments of human state as these ?J »0 [** Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was...preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as in a Christmas pie, And evermore »hose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a rial, the purest efficacy and extraction of... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1848 - 796 pages
...as malefactors : for Books,' he affirms, 'are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them ; they are as lively,... | |
 | Charles Buxton - 1848 - 652 pages
...THB MAM AKI) IH« SATYK. [Specimen.] COMMERCIAL BOOKS PUBLISHED BY Orfftiujljum UHlson, U0pl LONDON BOOKS are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as thnt soul was whose progeny they are — MILTOK. AUTHORS desirous of having their Literary Productions... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 566 pages
...themselves, as 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 a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pages
...absolutely dead things, bnt do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progey gates; in the city she uttereth her words saying,...love simplicity, and the sinners delight in then- rigorously productive, aa those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things,...potency of life in them , to be as active as that soûl whose progeny they are ; nay, they do préserve, as in a vial, Ihe purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...thereafter to confine, imprifon, and do marpeft juftice on them as malefaftors. For books are not abfolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as aftive as that foul was whofe progeny they are ; nay, they do preferve as in a vial the pureft efficacy... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...themselves, as well as men ; and therefore to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to he as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a phial the purest efficacy... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...was whofe progeny they are ; nay they do preferve as in a violl the pureft efficacie and extradtion of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigoroufly productive, as thofe fabulous Dragons teeth ; and being fown up and down, may chance 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. 
