 L. the public tooth drawers; and yet these rascally operators of the press have got a trick to fasten them again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative as ever.  Knight's Penny Magazine - Page 2061846Full view - About this book
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...fasten them again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative as ever. 0 Printing ! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind ! That lead, when molded into bullets, is not so mortal as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...fasten them again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative as ever. 0 Printing ! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind ! That lead, when molded into bullets, is not so mortal as "when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 pages
...only an imprimatur, our author might not disdain, perhaps, to be one of its most zealous patrons. O, printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind...a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus ; and the serpent's teeth which he sowed were nothing else but the letters which he invented. The first essay... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 pages
...only an imprimatur, our author might not disdain, perhaps, to be one of its most zealous patrons. O, printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind...a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus ; and the serpent's teeth which he sowed were nothing else but the letters which he invented. The first essay... | |
 | John Symons - Hull (England) - 1872 - 188 pages
...them again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative, as ever. O, printing ! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind...a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus ; and the serpent's teeth which he sowed were nothing else but the letters which he invented. The first essay... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1873 - 600 pages
...that they grow as firm a set and as biting and talkative as ever. O Printing, how hast thou disturb'd the peace of mankind ! that lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal as when founded into letters ! There was a mistake sure in the story of Cadmus ; and the serpent's teeth which... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...fasten them again in a few minutes, that they grow as firm a set, and as biting and talkative as ever. 0 Printing ! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind ! That lead, when molded into bullets, is not so mortal as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the... | |
 | George Shaw (author of Rambles about Filey.) - Humorists - 1880 - 264 pages
...elbow grease, do more harm than a hundred systematical divines, with their sweaty preaching. . . O, printing ! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind...were nothing else but the letters which he invented." Burnet, speaking of Marvel's reply, declared that its drollery caused it to be so well received, and... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - City council members - 1884 - 300 pages
...liturgy, and the laity no more clerkship than to save them from hanging. Oh, printing!" exclaims Marvel, " how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind! That...were nothing else but the letters which he invented. The first essay that was made towards this art was in single characters upon iron wherewith of old... | |
 | Jon Thomas Rowland - English language - 1994 - 194 pages
...clear by the metaphorical treatment of printing on nearby pages: O Printing! how hast thou disturb'd the Peace of Mankind! that Lead, when moulded into Bullets, is not so mortal as when founded into Letters! There was sure a mistake in the story of Cadmus; and the Serpents Teeth which... | |
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