 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and see.s her adversary." — "That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure." —... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 518 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world ; we bring impurity...youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that Vice promises to her followers and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ;* her... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...out of the race, where tha immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and h eat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue, ther efore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice... | |
 | 1857 - 564 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure. —... | |
 | Julia Addison - 1857 - 684 pages
...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 the world, we bring impurity...purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.' Grandmamma, whose intended departure had been deferred week after week, for she was as reluctsfct to... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 pages
..." the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not" withstanding dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not " innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; " that which purifies is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." There is much more in the same strain, a favourite one... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 750 pages
...the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not-' " withstanding dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not " innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; Milton, with instances of readings in evil Looks turned to good account. Plato's Censorship of Books,... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...innocence into the world, — wo bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is trial, and tri il is by what is contrary. That virtue, therefore, which...youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure. Milton.... | |
 | 1863 - 836 pages
...inevitably result from this course of conduct. To quote the words of the immortal Milton, " Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies ue is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." Devotion to duty, eg, is a virtue that is generated... | |
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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. Assuredly we bring not innocence... 
