 | Haig A. Bosmajian - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 241 pages
...authors' presence in it bibliophiles have instilled life into the book. As John Milton put it: "[F] or books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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" (5).... | |
 | Massimiliano Morini, Romana Zacchi - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 218 pages
...disposizioni censorie in vigore in virtù dell'Atto del 1643. La dinastia Stuart, restaurata nel 1660 dopo la «Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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 [...]... | |
 | Diane Purkiss - History - 2009 - 677 pages
...speaking about human liberty. What also shines out is Milton's passion for books: books, he writes, 'are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a...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... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 430 pages
...as well, testing and refining toward a clearer truth. Surely Augustine would agree with Milton that "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 2006 - 78 pages
...justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny 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. I... | |
 | John Milton - Philosophy - 2006 - 102 pages
...a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as 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 progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | Keith Allan, Kate Burridge - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 254 pages
...vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors: For books are 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... | |
 | George Eliot - 2006 - 286 pages
...unborn, and who, though dead, was yet to speak with him in those written memorials which, says Milton, "contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are," he seemed to himself to be touching the electric chain of his own ancestry;... | |
 | Micheline Ishay - Law - 2007 - 590 pages
...a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books...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. I... | |
 | Eric v.d. Luft - Political Science - 2007
...called Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England: For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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. I... | |
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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. 
