 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.  English Prose Writings of John Milton - Seite 314von John Milton - 1889 - 446 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 Seiten
...as well as men; and thereafter to confine in prison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...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,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 Seiten
...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...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and vigorously productive as those fabulous dragons' teeth, and being... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 Seiten
...enthusiasm of genius and scholarship, upon the shrines of Liberty. He venerates the spirits of books; "for books are not absolutely dead things, but do...contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as the soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - 446 Seiten
...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...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 Seiten
...well as men ; and thereafier to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 Seiten
...justice on them as malefactors. 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. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and... | |
 | Leah Sinanoglou Marcus - 1996 - 284 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Alden Smith - 1997 - 244 Seiten
...recalling here, from Milton's Areopagitica: "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." On the emphasis of the theme of overcoming death at the end of the Metcmorphoses, see Ernst... | |
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