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 f heat. The Oxford Book of English Prose - Page 224by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1092 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1834 - 602 pages
...unlicensed printing, but for the indiscriminate reading of all works, whatever their tendency : — ' I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where the immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' Still for an author, and an author... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 398 pages
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| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...they ought to do ; for it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innoACTIVE VIRTUE. I CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...where that immortal garland is to be run for, not cency, except men knew exactly all the conditions of the serpent ; his baseness and going upon his... | |
| 1839 - 498 pages
...but a useful part. " I cannot praise," says Milton, " a fugitive and cloistered virtue, un exercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat" Happy that Christian who while using this world as not abusing it, intent above all things on promoting... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...columbine innoACTIVE VIRTUE. I CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and nnbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but...where that immortal garland is to be run for, not cency, except men knew exactly all the conditions of the serpent ; hts baseness and going upon his... | |
| Central Society of Education (London, England), John Lalor, John Abraham Heraud, Edward Higginson, James Simpson - 1839 - 558 pages
...abstain, and yet distinguish, yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. 1 cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out 163. The chief evil to be dreaded in forming principles, is their taking a sectarian taint, which enlarged... | |
| Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 434 pages
...praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, uncxrrcised and unbreathed, that never sullies out and sees its adversary ; but slinks out of the race, where that...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." — MILTON'S Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing. P. 118,1.6. What are itt natives now, but... | |
| 1840 - 272 pages
...way-faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbrcathed. that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.—MILTOW. How a the world deceived by noise and show '. Alas ! how different, to pretend, and... | |
| William Hone - 1841 - 840 pages
...longer life in the world, through his tenderness to beasts, birds, fishes, insects, and reptiles.» I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the rate where that immortal garland is to be rim for, not without dust and heat. — Milton. August 21.... | |
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