 | Gary A. Olson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 202 pages
...2 1 For Stanley and Jane who have contributed immeasurably to the intellectual life of the academy Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. —John Milton His... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2010 - 360 pages
...which the venerated author perpetually inheres. In a different polemical context Milton had argued "books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency 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... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2010 - 360 pages
..."books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency 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 of that living intellect that bred them"; the encounters in... | |
 | Mark Greengrass, Michael Leslie, Timothy Raylor - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 400 pages
...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 violi the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.'38 Milton hesitates... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...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...whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that Irving intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
 | Anna K. Nardo - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 292 pages
...passage. Daniel imagines his grandfather speaking "with him in those written memorials which, says Milton, 'contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul [was] whose progeny they are'" (DD, 670). 14. The following was omitted from the passage Eliot copied into her notebook: "I know they... | |
 | Leonora Leet - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2004 - 542 pages
...animal or a work of art." The nature of such transpersonal life has been best expressed by Milton: For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ... as good almost... | |
 | Andrew King, John Plunkett - Popular literature - 2004 - 608 pages
...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...potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are. In them is preserved, as in a phial, the purest efficacy and extraction of... | |
 | A. C. Grayling - Philosophy - 2004 - 260 pages
...peers in do not expect an apostle to look out', but because Milton is right when he says that books 'contain a potency of life in them to be as active as the souls whose progeny they are' - bearing in mind that they are the progeny as much of readers' as... | |
 | Henry C. Mitchell - Computers - 2005 - 244 pages
...making just this kind of leap in Areopagitica. He reifies works in some truly startling statements: For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain...whose progeny they are: nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them. I know they are as... | |
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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. 
