| Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - 1992 - 320 pagina’s
...that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragons teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. ... As good almost kill a Man as kill a good Booke. . . a good Booke is the pretious life-blood of... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pagina’s
...efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as ace huge forests and unharbored heaths, Infamous hills...sandy perilous wilds, Where, through the sacred rays JOHN MILTON (1608-74), English poet. Areopagitics: a Speech for the L ibcrty of Unlicensed Printing... | |
| Francis Barker - 1993 - 276 pagina’s
...purest efficacy and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. (p. 149) The necessity is conceded of Church and State regarding books as potential malefactors and... | |
| Francis Barker - 1993 - 280 pagina’s
...anti-humanism not of the theoretical kind - above the value of individual men, or even life itself: And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book,... | |
| Nicholas Hudson - 1994 - 250 pagina’s
...have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves as well as men ... I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragon's...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. ' But these dangers, Milton insisted, did not justify the suppression of books. Books were sometimes... | |
| Stephen Innes - 1995 - 432 pagina’s
...efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragon's...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." The Massachusetts Reforming Synod of 1679 declared that books were "talents in God's service." In their... | |
| Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 pagina’s
...extraction of that living intellect that bred them." The transition to the second part is cautiously worded: "And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book." Milton appears reluctant ("as good almost") to equate killing a man and a book. In fact,... | |
| Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - 1994 - 270 pagina’s
...purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that 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 20 up armed men. And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill... | |
| Lana Cable - 1995 - 252 pagina’s
...prince Cadmus: "I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragons teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." So we come full circle to the original image of books as men ; but now they are freshly armed, ready... | |
| Harold M. Weber - 1996 - 310 pagina’s
...public citizenry must pay for its empowerment.^ When Milton explains that books "are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth;...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men," he echoes the imagery of sowing and reaping used by Henry VIII in the 1530s and 1540s. The language... | |
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