 | John Milton - 1866 - 500 sider
...was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and excraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they...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... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 1993 - 244 sider
...men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors: 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... | |
 | North American Serials Interest Group - 1993 - 350 sider
...productive than the dragon's teeth, John Milton declared sixteen centuries later, are books: "for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency...extraction of that living intellect that bred them" (Areopagitica). The medieval book, sturdily bound to protect its contents from the ravages of time,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 sider
...dead hieroglyphs. HENRY MILLER (1891-1980), US author. The Books in My Life, ch. 7(1951). 43 For books English novelist. A Personal Record, "A Familiar Preface" (1 91 2). 3 was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of... | |
 | Francis Barker - 1993 - 280 sider
...men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. 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 ofthat... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - 1994 - 270 sider
...malefactors: for 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...lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring 20 up armed men. And yet on the other... | |
 | Stephen Innes - 1995 - 432 sider
...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...lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." The Massachusetts Reforming... | |
 | Serge Soupel - 1995 - 252 sider
...Marie-Cécile RÉVAUGER Université Stendhal - Grenoble III LES AGES DE LA VIE SELON WILLIAM BLAKE 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... | |
 | Alan D. Chalmers - 1995 - 188 sider
...impossible to imagine Swift sharing Milton's lofty assurance, expressed in his Aereopagitica: 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... | |
 | Harold M. Weber - 1996 - 310 sider
...number, but Milton's essay moves this recognition into an entirely different and more serious key: "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... | |
| |
... 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. 
