 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.  Once a Week - Страница 78под редакцията на - 1859Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Denis Lane - 1990 - 290 страници
...released with disturbing or corrosive results. Powys may have echoed another of Milton's sentiments: For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigourously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being... | |
 | Patrick Sims-Williams - 2005 - 474 страници
...contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are, nay ... do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them'. 19 A student of Aldhelm's at Malmesbury called /Ethilwald described the books which two Anglo-Saxons... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 1993 - 244 страници
...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...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... | |
 | North American Serials Interest Group - 1993 - 350 страници
...vigorously productive than the dragon's teeth, John Milton declared sixteen centuries later, are books: "for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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 страници
...not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was Screwtape Letters, Leiter 21 (1942). 8 Tis chastity,...has that is clad in complete steel, And like a qui I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being... | |
 | Francis Barker - 1993 - 280 страници
...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 living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - 1994 - 270 страници
...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...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... | |
 | Serge Soupel - 1995 - 252 страници
...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...extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
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