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" 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 hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book.... "
Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People - Page 546
by Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 558 pages
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 492 pages
...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...kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...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...kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he Wyho destroys a good book, Mils reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many...
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A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 2

George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 528 pages
...progeny they are. I know they are as lively and vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up...wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Many a man lives a burden to the earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit...
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The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth ...

William Spalding - 1853 - 446 pages
...bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring...men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be need, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,...
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The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth ...

William Spalding - 1854 - 446 pages
...bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring...kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but -he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, killa the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...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...kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 566 pages
...book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good^iook, kills reason itself, kills 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...
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Liber Cantabrigiensis, an account of the aids afforded to poor students, the ...

Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being 1 sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature—God's image, but he who destroys a good book,...
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Liber Cantabrigiensis, an Account of the Aids Afforded to Poor Students, the ...

Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to bring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature—God^ image, but he who destroys a good book, destroys...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. 7458 Areopagitica o destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. 7459 Areopagitica...
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