 | 1837 - 638 páginas
...those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men ! A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." But Coleridge was a poet as well as a philosopher ; and therefore even while dwelling... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1839 - 330 páginas
...wisdom or genius. Listen to this magnificent sentence out of the volume now lying open before me — "Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature —...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit... | |
 | 1840 - 448 páginas
...And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 páginas
...And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss;... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 páginas
...And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...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. It is true, no age... | |
 | 632 páginas
...vial the purest essence and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Many a man," he adds, "lives a burden to the earth, but a good book is the...life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on jiurpose to a life beyond life." Indeed I know not anything more important to the healthy growth and... | |
 | Francis Hare - 1840 - 40 páginas
...preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. — Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. MILTON. No. VI. THE... | |
 | 1841 - 640 páginas
...ever ! THOS. H. GLAMORGAN. OUR MONTHLY CRYPT. " As good almost to kill a man, as kill a good book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's...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." Landlord and Tenant:... | |
 | 1841 - 510 páginas
...do preserve as in a viol the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Such precious life-blood... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 326 páginas
...teeth; and being sown up and down, may chante to spring up armed men." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." The quantity we have... | |
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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 hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book.... 
