 | William Spalding - 1854 - 446 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 566 páginas
...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 progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
 | 1896 - 858 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 324 páginas
...which belong to all time. In my course of desultory reading I had sense enough to know that " a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."* But I wanted, as every young man wants, something especially suited to my own... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 páginas
...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 progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 362 páginas
...which belong to all time. In my course of desultory reading I had sense enough to know that " a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."* But I wanted, as every young man wants, something especially suited to my own... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 páginas
...generality of bulky tomes; for great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.— WB CMow. 456. 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... | |
 | Michael Heim - 1999 - 324 páginas
...—The Riibaiyat of Omar Khnyyam. trans. Edward FitzGerald 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 thai living intellect that... | |
 | Kristen Poole - 2006 - 292 páginas
...pamphlets are transformed into a glorification of spawning ideas: "For books . . . 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... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 478 páginas
...themselves, as well as men. . . . 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 — And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book;... | |
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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. 
