 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.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pàgina 2691857Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - 1994 - 270 pàgines
...books are not absolutely dead things but do contain a potency of life in them to be active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 pàgines
...come, however, the next clause breaks with this tradition in equating "soul" with "intellect": books "preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." The transition to the second part is cautiously worded: "And yet on the other hand, unless wariness... | |
 | H. L. Hix - 1995 - 234 pàgines
...famous argument against the regulation of publishing, John Milton treats books as pure entities able to "preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." He describes them as "reason itself," the "image of God, as it were, in the eye" (720). Where books... | |
 | Lana Cable - 1995 - 252 pàgines
...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potensie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are... | |
 | Stephen Innes - 1995 - 432 pàgines
...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pàgines
...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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. . . . unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills... | |
 | Harold M. Weber - 1996 - 310 pàgines
..."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...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."35 Milton's notable reanimation of the legal discourse of censorship stems from a recognition... | |
 | Leah Sinanoglou Marcus - 1996 - 284 pàgines
...not ahsolutely dead things, hut doe contain a potencie of life in them to he as active as that soule was whose progeny they are: nay, they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that hred them" tC I: 297-9S), By... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten - 1997 - 244 pàgines
...not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." 59 On the other... | |
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