 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 104 páginas
...to the trivial bonk; they make it dead for them; they do what lies in them to destroy ' the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life ;' they ' spill that scason'd life of man preserv'd and stor'd up in Bookes.' For... | |
 | Anna Jane Buckland - 1882 - 544 páginas
...against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death." "A good book," he says, " is the precious life-blood of a. master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life," and to injure or suppress such a book is to "slay an immortality rather than a... | |
 | Mark Turner - 1994 - 316 páginas
...are the best index of the coming hour. (Emerson) xrz AND SPECIFICATION A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. (Milton, "Areopagitica") Sleep is pain's easiest salve. (Donne) God is the immemorial... | |
 | Francis Barker - 1993 - 276 páginas
...God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and... | |
 | Robert Martin, Gordon Stuart Adam - 1994 - 900 páginas
...kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye ... a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond.21 Although he enshrined reason in the minds of independent men, Milton did not at the... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 páginas
...unsurpassed for the first: 'Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond Me.' For the second, we need of course to read more historically, and ask how far proposals... | |
 | Douglas Greenberg, Stanley N. Katz - 1994 - 193 páginas
...in the way of that traffic. Remember Milton's admonition vnAreofagitica: A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Be careful not to say anything so egregiously silly as that a great artist—or... | |
 | Herschel Prins - 1995 - 300 páginas
...will speak plain when counsellors blanch. (Bacon, 'Of Counsel', Essays) A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit Embalmed and Treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. (Milton, 'Areopagitica') In this penultimate chapter I have two purposes: first,... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 páginas
...shortly, they become superior. "Many a man lives a burden to the earth, but a good Book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life." Contrary to our first impressions, then, Milton says killing a good book is much... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 páginas
...God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth, but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. [297-8] Great literature influences countless generations, and the loss of a truth... | |
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Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. 
