I cannot praise 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. The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 108by John Milton - 1835 - 976 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1857 - 280 pages
...that of a great wind in a forest: " I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...race where that immortal garland is to be run for, notwithstanding dust and heat." Can you not fancy the parish beadles getting up and walking rapidly... | |
| 1858 - 866 pages
...at sea. A BATTLE MUST PRECEDE VICTORY. I CAN NOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. This was the reason why the sage and serious poet, Spenser, describing true temperance under the person... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 pages
...utare, and from our Milton, who says,—" I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."— Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it, and might well exclaim... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 328 pages
...utare, and from our Milton, who says, — "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and keatS' — Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it. and might well... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1859 - 236 pages
...and from our Milton, who says, — " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heal? — Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it, and might well... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1859 - 226 pages
...utare, and from our Milton, who says,—-" I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.—Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it, and might well... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1861 - 236 pages
...utare, and from our Milton, who says,—"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.—Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it, and might well... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1861 - 244 pages
...utare, and from our Milton, who says, — "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...where that immortal garland is to be run for, not withoat dust and heat. — Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing... | |
| John Tulloch - 1861 - 536 pages
...— "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathcd, that never seeks out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the...garland is to be run for not without dust and heat." Elsewhere he says grandly, and in tho highest spirit of freedom, " Though all the winds of doctrine... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 512 pages
...cherish a " fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat," — with what result we know. But at least, if we are to inaugurate a policy of repression, let us... | |
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