 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books ; since... | |
 | 1838 - 514 pages
...progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are" — that "a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," and it sadly damps his enthusiasm to behold them dealt with like a bale of cloth... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1839 - 330 pages
...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 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 :... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...the image of 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, * Laws and orders relating... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse . We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books ; since... | |
 | Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841 - 330 pages
...armed men." In another place he writes, " 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." The quantity we have to learn, and know, and remember, encreases fearfully every... | |
 | 1843 - 150 pages
...in the fulness of time, thou passest from sheets — into boards ! " A good book," saith Milton, " is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Therefore is a good book likely to grow old. But this, the last of our set of... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...the image 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 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... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pages
...book. Is not a great historic abbey "an immortality rather than a life?'' Is not the cathedral, too, " the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life?" Are not these "restorers" and " improvers" of our public monuments the men who... | |
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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. 
