 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 Seiten
...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 progeny of life in them te be as active as that soul was whese progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 Seiten
...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 progeny 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... | |
 | 1857 - 878 Seiten
...third greatness, the power of art. Works thus wrought, whether poems in words, or pictures in forms, are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny 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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1823 - 578 Seiten
...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 progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was, whose progeny they are."* But, Sir, it is quite superfluous to proceed... | |
 | 1814 - 684 Seiten
...and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice en (hew as malefactors ; for books an; not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny 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... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 Seiten
...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 progeny 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... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 Seiten
...but that published at Rome in the nineteeth year of this nineteenth century. If, as Milton says, " books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them," the noblest of them all will find their peers on the pages of the Prohibitory Index. Scarcely a score... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 Seiten
...dead ; For where in all her walfe shall study seize Such monuments of human state as these V ] (1) [" Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 Seiten
...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 progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was «hose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 Seiten
...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 progeny 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... | |
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... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny 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. 
