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
| 1881 - 726 頁
...class," " R cks ahead." Of such writings we may use the words of Milton, " A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Long may the Greg family continue its connection with Styal, and as generation... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 424 頁
...'MAKERS OF FLORENCE,' ETC. ' Reading maketh a full man."—BACON, On Study. ' A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."—MILTON, Areopagitica. ' Je ne voyage sans livres, ny en paix, ny en guerre.... | |
| Mark Turner - 1994 - 316 頁
...are the best index of the coming hour. (Emerson) xrz AND SPECIFICATION A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. (Milton, "Areopagitica") Sleep is pain's easiest salve. (Donne) God is the immemorial... | |
| Francis Barker - 1993 - 276 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. Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and... | |
| Robert Martin, Gordon Stuart Adam - 1994 - 900 頁
...kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye ... a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond.21 Although he enshrined reason in the minds of independent men, Milton did not at the... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 頁
...unsurpassed for the first: '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 Me.' For the second, we need of course to read more historically, and ask how far proposals... | |
| Douglas Greenberg, Stanley N. Katz - 1994 - 193 頁
...in the way of that traffic. Remember Milton's admonition vnAreofagitica: A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Be careful not to say anything so egregiously silly as that a great artist—or... | |
| Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 頁
...shortly, they become superior. "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." Contrary to our first impressions, then, Milton says killing a good book is much... | |
| Herschel Prins - 1995 - 300 頁
...will speak plain when counsellors blanch. (Bacon, 'Of Counsel', Essays) A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit Embalmed and Treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. (Milton, 'Areopagitica') In this penultimate chapter I have two purposes: first,... | |
| William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 頁
...God, as it were, in the eye. 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. [297-8] Great literature influences countless generations, and the loss of a truth... | |
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