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
| 1865 - 838 pages
...love "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," — a vigorous and robust national life not being possible under such conditions. Still there were... | |
| Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper - 1865 - 1094 pages
...ontwikkeld te worden. Door kwade boeken wordt men met de dwalingen bekend , om ze Ie kunnen bestrijden. "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unbreathed that never sallies out and sees her ad"versary" etc. , p. 425 en 429 van de Works of JOHN MILTON, ed. Amst. 1698. Maar juist dit oogpunt, waaruit MILTON... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 330 pages
...vero habere virtutem satis est, quasi artem aliquant, nisi utare, and from our Milton, who says, — " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust anil heat." — Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it, and might... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 322 pages
...vero habere virtutem satis est, quasi artem aliquam, nisi utare, and from our Milton, who says,—" I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...where that immortal garland is to be run for, not ivithout dust and keat.'*' 1 — Areop. He had taken the words out of the Eoman's mouth, without knowing... | |
| William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 328 pages
...have been that of knowing good by evil. A fugitive and cloistered virtue is not to be praised — a virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." Milton scouts the idea of any one class undertaking to decide for mankind what truth is. Opinion is... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 220 pages
...utare, and from our Milton, who says, — "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, nnexercised 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... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 540 pages
...et naturelles*. 1 . I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered , unexercised and unbreathed virtue, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but...slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is lo be run for, not without dust and heat. (P. 429.) 2. He never left baiting and goring the successor... | |
| William Ingraham Kip - 1867 - 246 pages
...vows which produced much of the evil in the Romish Church. truly better, lie is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered...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... | |
| Henry Maudsley - 1867 - 476 pages
...virtue in the making. " I cannot praise," continues Milton, after saying that we know good by evil, " a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust or heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which... | |
| Gideon Smales - 1867 - 294 pages
...or, as Milton says, "praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, thatnever sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat;" for he sacrificed ease and quiet and performed deeds of noble enterprize in the defence and for the... | |
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