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 | K. S. Shrader-Frechette - Nature - 1993 - 363 pages
...More than three hundred years ago, John Milton wrote that "books are not absolutely dead things," but "contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are." I hope that this book has such potency, the potential to help... | |
 | Serge Soupel - Age - 1995 - 252 pages
...Marie-Cécile RÉVAUGER Université Stendhal - Grenoble III LES AGES DE LA VIE SELON WILLIAM BLAKE 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... | |
 | Alan D. Chalmers - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 188 pages
...it is impossible to imagine Swift sharing Milton's lofty assurance, expressed in his Aereopagitica: 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... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - Study Aids - 1994 - 270 pages
...well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison and do sharpest justice on them as i5 malefactors: for books are not absolutely dead things but do contain a potency of life in them to be active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...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... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - History - 2003 - 312 pages
...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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...From this apparent concession, however, he develops the theme of literature's vitality and importance: 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... | |
 | Harold M. Weber - History - 1996 - 310 pages
...number, but Milton's essay moves this recognition into an entirely different and more serious key: "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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...Parliament of England (1644). Repr. in Complete Prose Works of Milton, ed. Ernest Sirluck (1 959). 16 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... | |
 | Alden Smith - History - 1997 - 244 pages
...1984). 1. Martindale discusses a famous quotation, worth 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 progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction... | |
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