 | Laozi - Philosophy - 1973 - 180 pages
...precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss ; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1979 - 422 pages
...Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye .... A good Booke is the pretious lifeblood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life .... We should be wary therefore ... how we spill that season'd life of man preserv'd and stor'd... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - History - 1987 - 192 pages
...Image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life. (491 -3) At one level Milton seems to be idealizing books, privileging them even above human... | |
 | Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - Drama - 1992 - 320 pages
...to spring up armed men. ... As good almost kill a Man as kill a good Booke. . . a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life. (Milton 681) The "potency" of the text is here expressed in sexual and procreative terms by Milton,... | |
 | Francis Barker - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Tis true, no age...restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - Study Aids - 1994 - 270 pages
...earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spitit, embalmed -5 and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. 'Tis true, no age...restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which... | |
 | William Gerber - Epistemology & Metaphysics - 1997 - 252 pages
...Speech for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing," he wrote further: (190) ...a good Booke is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life. (f) In the eighteenth century — A few decades after the publication of "Areopagitica," Joseph... | |
 | Alan Haworth - Freedom of speech - 1998 - 282 pages
...the Earth; but a good ftooke is the pretious lifeblood of a master spirit. imbatm'd and tresur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life. Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof there is no great losse; and revolutions of ages doe not oft recover the losse of a rejected truth,... | |
 | David Norbrook - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 532 pages
...circle would be a source for such persuasions. Milton's much-quoted claim that 'a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life' (n, 493) has troubled modern critics for its uncharacteristic ritualism. It would, however, have... | |
 | David E. W. Fenner - Education - 1999 - 380 pages
...image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life."14 For those who claim that there is some religious reason to suppress "unacceptable" doctrines.... | |
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature. God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master... 
