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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... "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 300
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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Treasures from the Prose Writings of John Milton

John Milton - 1866 - 520 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...
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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 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. MILTON....
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The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind

Henry Maudsley - 1867 - 476 pages
...slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust or heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...what is contrary . . . That virtue therefore which is a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers,...
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Bible illustrations: consisting of apophthegms [ &c.], grouped ..., Volume 6

James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 pages
...bring not iunouearer at hand, and need not go over cence into the world, — we bring im334 is trial. 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.- — . Milton. This...
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The History, Object, and Proper Observance of the Holy Season of Lent

William Ingraham Kip - 1867 - 246 pages
...but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. That which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. Which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spencer, describing true Temperance under the person...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...out of the race,2 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...rather. That which purifies us is trial, and trial is oy what is contrary. That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil,...
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Areopagitica: 24 November 1644

John Milton - 1868 - 168 pages
...by what is contrary. That vertue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evill, and knows not the utmoft that vice promifes to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank vertue, not a pure ; her whiteneffe is but an excrementall whitenefle ; Which was the reafon why our...
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... Areopagitica: 24 November 1644. Preceded by Illustrative Documents ...

John Milton - 1869 - 588 pages
...out of the race, where that immortali garland is to be run for, not without duil and heat. Aifuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary. That vertue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation...
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Areopagitica: 24 November 1644

John Milton, John Selden - 1868 - 92 pages
...out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, not without duft and heat/^ Affuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary. That vertue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation...
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The baptist Magazine

1869 - 844 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and beat. Assuredly, we bring not innocence into the world ; we bring impurity...trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises...
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