 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - 2003 - 308 pages
...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 words is, as Milton says in reference... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 113 pages
...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 with this tradition in equating "soul"... | |
 | Lana Cable - 1995 - 231 pages
...how Bookes demeane themselves, as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potensie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are ; nay... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - 1994 - 272 pages
...themselves, as 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... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, Nancy J. Vickers - 1997 - 275 pages
...how Bookes demeane themtelves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do tharpest justice on them as malefactors: For Books are not absolutely dead things, but due contain a potencle of life in them to be as active as that soule was whote progeny they are; nay... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 669 pages
...doth in music lie. 7457 Areopagitica Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency 7 Ү 7 S {U : > O Ձ^yi > s| z F _@ Az C + 5 ʿ WЫ 7458 Areopagitica As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, Professor Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - 2000 - 450 pages
...themselves, as well as men. . . . 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 — And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book;... | |
 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - 2001 - 280 pages
...eye how books demean themselves, as 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 a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001
...eye how books demean themselves as 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 a potency of life in them to be as active as* that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve... | |
 | Rebecca Knuth, John English - 2003 - 277 pages
...witness to the fires and quoted Milton: "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. . . ." This poignant description of the burning of the National Library in Sarajevo is by a former... | |
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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... 
