 | Haig A. Bosmajian - 2006 - 241 páginas
...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).... | |
 | David Treuer - 2006 - 230 páginas
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 | Massimiliano Morini, Romana Zacchi - 2006 - 218 páginas
...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 - 2009 - 677 páginas
...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 - 2006 - 430 páginas
...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... | |
 | James S. M. Anderson - 2006 - 612 páginas
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 | John Milton - 2006 - 78 páginas
...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 - 2006 - 102 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 66 páginas
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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. 
