 | 1856 - 352 páginas
...say some. True, but what arc books? Hear Milton : " Books contain a progeny of life in them, to bo as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that liviug intellect that bred them. A good work is a... | |
 | Lana Cable - 1995 - 252 páginas
...is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine,...malefactors: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potensie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are ; nay... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 páginas
...understatement ("Books are 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"... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - 2003 - 312 páginas
...pronounce the text 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... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - 1994 - 270 páginas
...the second paragraph, "it is of the greatest concernment in the church and com monwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine. . .and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors" (lines 12-15). He is not (A) ".. .against it in... | |
 | Stephen Innes - 1995 - 432 páginas
...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 they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are... | |
 | Harold M. Weber - 1996 - 310 páginas
...therefore bear: "I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as...imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors" (720). This sentence introduces Milton's insistence that books are "not absolutely dead things," and... | |
 | Leah Sinanoglou Marcus - 1996 - 284 páginas
...not ahsolutely dead things, hut doe contain a potencie of life in them to he as 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 hred them" tC I: 297-9S), By... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, Nancy J. Vickers - 1997 - 292 páginas
...RE-PRESSED ... it is of greatest toncernment ... to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themtelves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefatton: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potende of life in them to... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, Nancy J. Vickers - 1997 - 292 páginas
...how Bookes demeane themtelves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do tharpest justice on them as malefactors: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but due contain a potencle of life in them to be as active as that soule was whote progeny they are; nay... | |
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I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have 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... 
