 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...duft and heat. Affuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is...youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmoft that vice promifes to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 440 pages
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmoft that vice promifes to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whitenefs is but an excremental whitenefs ; which was the reafon why our iage and ferious poefc Spenfer,... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...that which purifies us in trial, and trial is hy what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is hut a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows...vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is hut a hlank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is hut an excremcntal whiteness; which was the reason... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 638 pages
...dud and heat. Affuredly we bring not innocence into the world; we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is Trial; and Trial is by what is...That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the comtemplatiou of evil, and knows not the uimoll that vice proraifes to her followers, and rejefts it,... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 636 pages
...duft and heat. Afluredly we bring not innocence into the world ; we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is Trial ; and Trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a young* ling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the ulmoft that vice promifes to her followers,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies out and sees her Adversary that which is but a youngling in the contemplation of Evil,...and rejects it, is but a blank Virtue, not a pure. • Since, therefore, the knowledge and survey of Vice is in this world so necessary to theconstituting... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...by what is contrary. That Vertue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evill, and knows not the utmost that Vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank Vertue, not a pure ; her whitenesse is but an excrementall whitenesse2; which was the reason why our... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather. \That which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what,...excremental whiteness, which was the reason why our sage and jcriqus poet Spenser, whom I dare be known ^to think~aTEetteFTeacher than Scotus or Aquinas, describing... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure. — Milton. DCCCXCVI. Consider, that the invisible thing called a good name, is made up of the breath... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...dust and heat Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is...followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure—Milton. DCCCXCVI. Consider, that the invisible thing called a good name, is made up of the breath... | |
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... a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into... 
