 I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book....  English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) - Page 206by John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 792 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 2006 - 78 pages
...bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up...spirit, imbalmed 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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up...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 can restore a life, whereof... | |
 | Haig A. Bosmajian - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 241 pages
...there were gods or whether not'" (1951 7). At the outset of Areopagitica, Milton personified the book: "[U]nless wariness be used, as good almost kill a...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye" (1951 6). Both homicide and bibliocide are reprehensible. Sixteen years after Areopagitica was published,... | |
 | Massimiliano Morini, Romana Zacchi - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 218 pages
...living intellect that bred them [...] who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills...book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmend and treasured on purpose to a life beyond life» (trad. mia). morte di Oliver Cromwell e... | |
 | Micheline Ishay - Law - 2007 - 590 pages
...bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up...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 can restore a life, whereof... | |
 | Eric v.d. Luft - Political Science - 2007
...bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Destroying, censoring, and restricting the written word and discouraging literacy have been standard... | |
 | John W. Casperson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2007 - 258 pages
...spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand unless warriors be used as good almost kill a man as a good Book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,...Earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured upon purpose to a life beyond life."- John M.ilton,Areopagitica.John... | |
 | John W. Casperson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2007 - 258 pages
...And yet on the other hand unless warriors be used as good almost kill a man as a good Book; who Mils a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but...Earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured upon purpose to a life beyond life."—John "M.HtQn.,Areopagitica.jQhn... | |
 | Wallace M. Alston, Michael Welker - Religion - 2007 - 470 pages
...as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ... [It is] as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who...itself, kills the image of God as it were, in the eye . . . a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose... | |
 | John Witte - History - 2007 - 25 pages
...do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." It is "as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye." Censorship is a "kind of homicide," "sometimes a martyrdom," even "a kind of massacre."162 Milton used... | |
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