 | Marshall Grossman - Literary Criticism - 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... | |
 | Oxford University Press, TME. - Quotations - 1999 - 1160 pages
...purest efficacy and extraction ofthat living intellect that bred them. AreoiMiyit it'll ( i (144) 8 As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who...good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of C,od, as it were in the eye. Arenpagltica 1 1644) 9 A good book is the precious life-blood of a master... | |
 | Michael Heim - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 324 pages
...extraction of thai living intellect that bred Ihem — Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, Ood's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason...itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye A good hook is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a... | |
 | David E. W. Fenner - Classement et notation (Élèves et étudiants) - 1999 - 380 pages
...compares a book to a human life when he claims, against censorship, that "unlesse warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who...Man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but hee who destroycs a good Book, kills reason it selfe, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.... | |
 | Stephen B. Dobranski - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 276 pages
..."I know they [books] 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" (A3v/492). To prepare a book for sale in the seventeenth century, book-binders sewed the sheets.45... | |
 | Richard Moon - Law - 2000 - 330 pages
...preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them ... [U]nless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.' 50 In the view of Ong 1982, 46, because '[w]riting separates the knower from the known' it permits... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, Professor Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - History - 2000 - 478 pages
...but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are — And yet on the other hand unless wariness be used,...Image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself."18 Milton received his position as secretary as much for his writing ability as for his religious... | |
 | Geoffrey Parrinder - Quotations, English - 2000 - 389 pages
...charge of such a man? — Everybody in the Empire will help to do so. Mencius, I (4th century BCE) 9 Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's...itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. John Milton, Areopagitica (1644) 10 Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive Officiously to keep... | |
 | Kristen Poole - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 292 pages
...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 up armed men" (720). Where antisectarian authors disparagingly discuss the "spring" of sectarianism, seeking its... | |
 | Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky - African-Americans - 2001 - 340 pages
...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."t The particular works to which I refer, are so masterly, and have become so much the staple of... | |
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Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. 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... 
