 | Henry C. Mitchell - 2005 - 244 pàgines
...some truly startling statements: 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...as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those... | |
 | Michael Gorman - 2005 - 244 pàgines
...absolutely dead things, but they do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. — John Milton, Areopagitica John Milton wrote his Areopagitica as an attack on what we would now... | |
 | Rick M. Nañez - 2005 - 277 pàgines
...things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. God be thanked for books!" 10 There are so many other aspects of books and reading that should be dealt... | |
 | Diane Purkiss - 2005 - 324 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 violi the purest efficacie and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2005 - 1864 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 violi the purest efficacie and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them." Swift's personified... | |
 | Haig A. Bosmajian - 2006 - 241 pàgines
...book. As John Milton put it: "[F] or books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose...extraction of that living intellect that bred them" (5). Then, in condemning the Church's destruction of books, Milton wrote: "Till then books were ever... | |
 | Massimiliano Morini, Romana Zacchi - 2006 - 218 pàgines
...Stuart, restaurata nel 1660 dopo la «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 vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them [...] who kills a man... | |
 | Diane Purkiss - 2009 - 677 pàgines
...Milton's passion for books: books, he writes, '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 ... As good almost kill a man as kill a good book.' As for books' power to corrupt, Milton will have... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 pàgines
...thinkers are studied because, as thinkers, they have burst the bonds of time and place. Their works "preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."10 They are like those fabulous dragon's teeth, that being sown up and down, "may chance to spring... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - 2006 - 430 pàgines
...Augustine would agree with Milton that "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,"2 and in their books their relationship remains vital — that is, alive in the present — 139... | |
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... 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. 
