 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...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 in a vial...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... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as the soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial...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 - 1852 - 472 pages
...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 in a vial,...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... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a...intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and vigorously productive as those fabulous dragons' teeth, and being sown up and down may chance to spring... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...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...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 - 1853 - 566 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life iu them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...life in them, to be as active as that soul whoee progeny they arc ; nay, they do preserve, as in n vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living...intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, ami as vigorously productive, as those fabulous ilrai^n«' teeth : ami being sown up and down, may... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...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...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 - 1854 - 566 pages
...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...living intellect that bred them. I know they are as li vely and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - 1854 - 368 pages
...BY BILLIN.38. " Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them j . . they are as lively, and as vigorously productive,...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." — MILTOK. V BOSTON: A. TOMPKIN^AND BB MUSSEY & CO. I ! TI.DK ' ', ,'„ .- Entered according to Act... | |
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... 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. 
