 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. I...  Century Monthly Magazine - Page 411926Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...preserve, as in a viol, the 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 spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...preserve, as in a viol, the 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 tec-lh; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - Ireland - 1812 - 954 pages
...preserve as in a viol, the 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 spring up armed again." Milton's Areopagaica... | |
 | Baptists - 1825 - 582 pages
...preserve, as in a viol, the purest efficacy and extraction ofthat 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 spring up armed men." " But, lest I should... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...do preserve as in a vial the 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 spring up armed men. And yet on the other... | |
 | English literature - 1814 - 684 pages
...do preserve as in a vial the 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 spring up armed men. And yet on the other... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...preserve as in a phial the 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 spring up armed men. And yet on the other... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...preserve as in a viull the purest efficacie 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 spring up armed men. * * * A good book is... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...do preserve as in a vial the 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. d dragon's teeth ; and beingsown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other... | |
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