 For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.  The Prose Works of John Milton - Pàgina 168per John Milton - 1845Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Harold M. Weber - 1996 - 310 pàgines
...contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."35 Milton's notable reanimation of the legal discourse of censorship stems from a recognition... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Areopagitica: a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing... | |
 | Dennis Freeborn - 1998 - 502 pàgines
...aftive as that foule was whofe progeny they are; nay they do prefcrve as in a violl the pureft efficacic and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously prodcftive,as thofe fabulous Dragons tcethjand being fown up and down, may chance to fpring up armed... | |
 | Marshall Grossman - 1998 - 378 pàgines
...that 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 up armed men. (CPW 2.492) Oedipus, too, is reason's child, whom reason sends back into the dark place whence he came,... | |
 | Marshall Grossman - 2002 - 284 pàgines
...famously of books "as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragons teeth; [that] being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men" 7 —perhaps a masculine and military metaphor for the present context, but an apt one. One measure... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - 1999 - 288 pàgines
.... contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are', that they 'preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them', and that 'a good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose... | |
 | Stephen B. Dobranski - 1999 - 276 pàgines
...author. "I know they [books] are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragons teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men" (A3v/492). To prepare a book for sale in the seventeenth century, book-binders sewed the sheets.45... | |
 | Michael Heim - 1999 - 324 pàgines
...contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay. they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of thai living intellect that bred Ihem — Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, Ood's image;... | |
 | Kristen Poole - 2006 - 292 pàgines
...contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men" (720). Where antisectarian authors disparagingly discuss the "spring" of sectarianism, seeking its... | |
 | Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky - 2001 - 340 pàgines
...contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are — nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth, and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men."f The particular works... | |
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