| William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 328 Seiten
...as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the honest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that...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... | |
| Annie Kane - 1867 - 252 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1868 - 590 Seiten
...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...that living intellect that bred them. I know they are an lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down... | |
| Robert Cowe - 1868 - 522 Seiten
...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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to... | |
| Alexander Martin Sullivan - 1868 - 310 Seiten
...as that foule was whose progeny they are. Nay, they doe preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred...lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth, that being sown up and down may chance to spring up armed men." Gentlemen, Milton tells... | |
| English authors - 1869 - 458 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| 1869 - 974 Seiten
...Milton affirms, " books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay,...extraction of that living intellect that bred them," this concession to the outcry of opponents, or suppresiioa for the peace of the Church, or self-denial... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 Seiten
...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...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 - 1870 - 356 Seiten
...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...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... | |
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