| Nathaniel Morton - 1669 - 562 pagina’s
...in the east and the west, in two countries separated by a mighty ocean." — Life, 75. " A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." — Milton. Before proceeding to give Mr. Robinson's views in detail, we feel... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pagina’s
...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." EMERSON'S ESSAYS.* THE American is proud of any man, whose genius tends to give... | |
| Old Humphrey - 1799 - 338 pagina’s
...gathered now ; the full harvest is reserved to the end of the world. " A good book," says Milton, " is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed...treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." It may teach for ages : succeeding generations of a family may gather from it knowledge, and find in it... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pagina’s
...kills 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 a life. 'Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss;... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pagina’s
...precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond a life. Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there...of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected Irulh, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what persecution... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pagina’s
...kills 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 a life. Tis true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pagina’s
...precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, imbalmed 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 revolutions of ages do not often recover the loss of rejected Truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should... | |
| John Milton - 1819 - 484 pagina’s
...pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a Life beyond Life. Tis true, no age can restore a Life, whereof perhaps there is no great losse ; and revolutions of ages doe not oft recover the losse of a rejected Truth, for the want of... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 pagina’s
...first set open to the public the doors of some such lofty hall, well stored with what Milton calls "the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life ? " " If," as Pancirollus hath it, in his Treatise on the Lost Inventions of the... | |
| 1839 - 1092 pagina’s
...to define in what respects. Milton says, " 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." And to whom does this apply with such force of truth as to those who have written... | |
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