 | North American Serials Interest Group - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 350 pages
...are not absolutely dead things, but 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...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them" (Areopagitica). The medieval book, sturdily bound to protect its contents from the ravages of... | |
 | K. S. Shrader-Frechette - Nature - 1993 - 363 pages
...hundred years ago, John Milton wrote that "books are not absolutely dead things," but "contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." I hope that this book has such potency, the potential to help change things. I hope that it helps us... | |
 | Serge Soupel - Age - 1995 - 252 pages
...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...and 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... | |
 | Alan D. Chalmers - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 188 pages
...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...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them ... a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, enbalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - Study Aids - 1994 - 270 pages
...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...and 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... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - History - 2003 - 312 pages
...tyrant for its uncompensated appropriation of other men's words. In so far as books 'contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are' (Areopagitica, CP, 2, 492), the misappropriation of another's words is, as Milton says in reference... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...not absolutely dead things") and with a traditional Christian term (soul): books "contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." Previewing difficulties to come, however, the next clause breaks with this tradition in equating "soul"... | |
 | H. L. Hix - Philosophy - 1995 - 234 pages
...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... | |
 | Harold M. Weber - History - 1996 - 310 pages
...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...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."35 Milton's notable reanimation of the legal discourse of censorship stems from a recognition... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...literature's vitality and importance: 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...and 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... | |
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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. 
