 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest .justice on them as malefactors : for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life iu them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny...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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 526 pages
...vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men. For books are not absolutely dead things, but contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. I know they are as lively and vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...in tne church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean therm.-lves ал well ai men. perforation of the precipice. At the mouth of the cave sale two figures; the first, bo ae active as tbat soul was whose progeny they are I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 566 pages
...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...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as li vely and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Books in My Life, ch. 7(1951). 43 For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency (1 91 2). 3 them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and... | |
 | Francis Barker - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...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...preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as... | |
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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. 
