 | 1837 - 638 pages
...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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...God, as it were in the eye. 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. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do... | |
 | 1840 - 448 pages
...God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives, a 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. It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 688 pages
...questions. To these questions, however, we shall now address ourselves to the best of our ability. 0 Milton nobly says, " A good book is the life-blood...It is the eye, tongue, sword, which some hero and high priest of humanity hath bequeathed Fo us; a portion of the indestructible patrimony which the... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a 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. 'T is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss ;... | |
 | James William Massie - Belgium - 1846 - 572 pages
...kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye :" if a good book " be the precious life-blood of a master- spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," we should surely be wary what persecution we raise against the living images of... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pages
...inclination for any others. "A good book," says Milton, in characteristic language, " is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." And when all may enjoy the privilege of communion with such spirits ; an intellectual... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...almost kill a man, as kill a book : who kills a 2 den 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. It is true, no age can restore a 4 seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books; since we see a... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...man us kill a jrood book. Many a man lives a burthen 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. MILTON'S Sftuh for tlu Liberty of unlicensed Printing. THUS far then I have been... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a 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 no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and... | |
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Many a man lives a 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. 
