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. The American Whig Review - 第 484 頁1845完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 368 頁
...containing the life of a true man is full of precious seed; to use Milton's words, " it is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Such a book never ceases to exercise an elevating influence, and a power for good.... | |
| David Masson - 1873 - 770 頁
...as it were in the eye. Many a man 41 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 how had this slaying of books, and even the prevention of their birth, by... | |
| William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney - 1860 - 384 頁
...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... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 頁
...steals sweets from it, but docs not injure it. Cvltvii. BOOKB-Value of. A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose, to a life beyond Ufo. ¿liltoa. Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book !—... | |
| Henry James Morgan - 1862 - 808 頁
...containing the life of a truo man is full of precious seed ; to use Milton's words. 'It is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.' Such a book never cea.cs to exercise an elevating influence and a power for good.... | |
| Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 422 頁
...God, as it were ia 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. — MILTON'S Speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing. THUS far then I have... | |
| 1864 - 704 頁
...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. MILTON. CXVI. He that will throw away a good book because it is not curiously gilded,... | |
| Blade - 1865 - 268 頁
...produced by the great current of the popular reading. " A good book," says Milton, " is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." It stands sometimes, like the angel in the Apocalypse, one foot on the land, and one foot on the sea,... | |
| 1866 - 492 頁
...argument to remove that abject badge of a nation's servitude. " A good book," said he, "is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. . . . We should be wary, therefore, what persecutions we raise against the living... | |
| 1866 - 978 頁
...to hope that each monthly number will merit Milton's description of a " good book," " the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose, to a Ufe beyond life." FAITH. NEAR to a precipice's frowning verge,'] A noble, fearless boy Stood, grazing... | |
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