 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 sider
...productive, as those fabulous dragons' 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 almo.t kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ;... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1839 - 330 sider
...wisdom or genius. Listen to this magnificent sentence out of the volume now lying open before me — "Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature —...he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit... | |
 | 1841 - 640 sider
...was a good house; and the success of the piece was complete. OUR MONTHLY CRYPT. " As good almost to kill a man, as kill a good book : who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but be who destroys a good book, kills Reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 sider
...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,...of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1822 - 1050 sider
...works. Milton had remarked what Horace alluded to, in his \ if urn rendentem, tints et adores ! " He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, — God's...God, as it •were in the eye. Many a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured... | |
 | 1857 - 602 sider
...example, from Milton's Areopagitica, why should we not substitute " picture" for the word " book ?» £ And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: [picture] who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 sider
...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,...eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a gcOcl ibook is the precious lifebjood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 sider
...being gown up and down may chanco to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness bo used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Muny a man lives a burthen to the earth ; but a good book is the i'ri'cious lifoblood of a master spirit,... | |
 | James William Massie - 1846 - 572 sider
...intellect that bred them ;" and if it be " almost as good kill a man as kill a good book :" since " he who destroys a good book 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... | |
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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:... 
