 | Marshall Grossman - 2002 - 284 pages
...famously of books "as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragons teeth; [that] being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men" 7 —perhaps a masculine and military metaphor for the present context, but an apt one. One measure... | |
 | Stephen B. Dobranski - 1999 - 276 pages
...may intend to evoke the bookbinders' role within his argument for the author. "I know they [books] are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those...sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men" (A3v/492). To prepare a book for sale in the seventeenth century, book-binders sewed the sheets.45... | |
 | Michael Heim - 1999 - 324 pages
...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 thai living intellect that bred Ihem — Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, Ood's image;... | |
 | Andrew Bennett - 1999 - 288 pages
.... contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are', that they 'preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them', and that 'a good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...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 ofthat living intellect that bred them. AreoiMiyit it'll ( i (144) 8 As good almost kill a man as kill... | |
 | Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky - 2001 - 340 pages
...but do contain a potency of life in them, to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are—nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy...being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men."t The particular works to which I refer, are so masterly, and have become so much the staple of... | |
 | Kristen Poole - 2006 - 292 pages
...spawning ideas: "For books . . . 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...lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men" (720). Where antisectarian... | |
 | Richard Moon - 2000 - 330 pages
...absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial...extraction of that living intellect that bred them ... [U]nless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man, kills... | |
 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - 2001 - 282 pages
...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...lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. 7 Books can act, and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...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...lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other... | |
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... 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. 
