 | 1840 - 448 pages
...progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy 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 being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 326 pages
...progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy 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 being sown up and down, may chante to spring up armed men." In another place he... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 330 pages
...intellect that bred them. 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." In another place he writes, " Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious... | |
 | lady Henrietta Georgiana M. Chatterton - 1841 - 330 pages
...preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and 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 sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." In another place he... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...whose progeny they arc. Nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy 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, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet, on the other... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dra: -us' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...progeny Alicy are ; nay, thfy do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extrac\tion of that living intellect that bred them. 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...ал vigorously productivo aa those fabulous dragon's tee'K: and 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve, as in a rial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that t men tasting thorn die thereof. A number there are...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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...whose progeny they are ; nay, they do 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 thoe fabulous dragon'» teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet,... | |
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... nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy 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 being sown up and down, may chance to spring... 
