 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 páginas
...that pretty bin, My lady sweet, arise ; Arise, arise. 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 as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1837 - 316 páginas
...kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON'S Speoch for the liberty of unlicensed printing. THUS far then I have heen... | |
 | 1838 - 514 páginas
...utterance. The student is accustomed to the reflection that "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" — that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838 - 1182 páginas
...For books," says he, (speaking merely of human productions.) " 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 as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 518 páginas
...utterance. The student is accustomed to the reflection that "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"—that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 páginas
...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 as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 páginas
...seize Such monuments of human state as these P ] (I) [ w 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 as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
 | Francis Hare - 1840 - 40 páginas
...OF EVERY MONTH, WITH THE MAGAZINES.] Books 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... | |
 | 1840 - 448 páginas
...want your reward in heaven.' BOOKS. 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 phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
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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 progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 
