 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 páginas
...life." — "Since mankind learned print, no night is wholly black." — Christopher Morley "A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." — Milton "We all know that books burn — yet we have the greater knowledge... | |
 | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - 2002 - 396 páginas
...character in other forms':68 'It is a still living voice; it is an intellect. To use Milton's words, "It is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life".'69 Once a human voice is preserved in the stilled life of print, a good book,... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - 2010 - 360 páginas
...are said to preserve the extraction of the intellect that bred them, they are again physiologized: Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life... | |
 | Owsei Temkin - 2002 - 302 páginas
...fail to be realized — in short, to develop a feeling for the fate of human affairs. As Milton said, "Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 páginas
...dragon which Ovid says (Mel, III, 95126) were sown by its slayer, Cadmus, King of Thebes in Boeotia. image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason...master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.23 "Pis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss;... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig - 2003 - 276 páginas
...men. And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as lull 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-spirir, embalmed 25 and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. 'Tis true, no age... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 páginas
...And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost Lill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...burden 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. Tis true,... | |
 | Deborah Cassidi - 2003 - 196 páginas
...Revolution in France Simon Jenkins, writer and'columnist As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 páginas
...upper council met - the heart of Athenian democracy.) As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 2003 - 552 páginas
...against calamity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson • I cannot live without books. — Thomas Jefferson • ... who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. — John Milton • Books are good enough in their way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute... | |
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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.... 
