 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.  The North British Review - Strona 1751857Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001
...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. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as... | |
 | Dorothy Auchter - 2001 - Liczba stron: 403
...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. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - Liczba stron: 608
...are not ahsohttely dead things, hut do contain a potency of life in them to he as active as that soul was whose progeny they are: nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest effiracy and extraction of that living intellect that hred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously... | |
 | Gary A. Olson - 2002 - Liczba stron: 178
...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. —John Milton His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors,... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - 2010 - Liczba stron: 360
...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 Chancery in the thirties strengthen this... | |
 | Rukmini Bhaya Nair - 2002 - Liczba stron: 308
...the reader. Finally, Milton speaks again for Rushdie: For Books are not absolutely dead things. ... I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragon's teeth; and being sown down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet ... as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book... | |
 | Joseph Loewenstein - 2010 - Liczba stron: 360
...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 violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Whatever the relation... | |
 | Mark Greengrass, Michael Leslie, Timothy Raylor - 2002 - Liczba stron: 396
...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 - 2003 - Liczba stron: 966
...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 Irving intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as... | |
 | Kenneth Ira Kersch - 2003 - Liczba stron: 395
...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. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as... | |
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