 | 1840 - 448 pages
...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... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - Europe - 1841 - 330 pages
...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." In another place he... | |
 | lady Henrietta Georgiana M. Chatterton - 1841 - 330 pages
...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. 1 know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they arc. Nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy...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 - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do 1 sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books i "% Chambers Robert" Robert Chambers( dra: -us' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them." Books have always been deemed a power ; the press is termed a fourth estate ; and yet art, pictorial... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...contain a progeny of life in TKerrT to be as active as that soulwas whose progeny Alicy are ; nay, thfy do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extrac\tion...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 - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. [Liberty of die Press.] o borrow a mess of vinegar, telling us she had a good...was gone down stairs, desire me to be no more «o rigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...in them, to be as active as that soul »hose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a rial, d waters in which it falleth so bitter, that men tasting...think they cannot admire as they ought the power an dragona' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...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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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. 
