 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...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 cency, except men knew exactly all the conditions of the serpent ; his baseness and going upon his... | |
 | Periodicals - 1840 - 272 pages
...cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbrcathed. that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race...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... | |
 | Universalism - 1855 - 444 pages
...can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary ; but slinks out of the race,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." To the same end, Bacon tells us that the life " which does not cast any beam of heat or light upon... | |
 | Literature - 1896 - 854 pages
...cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race...that immortal garland is to be run for not without heat and dust. And he Bays: — Down to "virtue," the current S and R are both announced and repeated... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...adversary, btit shnks out ofthe race, where that immortal garland is to be run ' for, not without dust aad heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world,...trial is by what is contrary. ^That virtue therefore" WhlChis but a'ySPtigllng "in the Contemplation oPevil^and knows not the utmost that vice promises_... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...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,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. This was the reason why our sage and serious poet, Spenser, describing true temperance under the person... | |
 | Joseph Fletcher - 1847 - 650 pages
...following passages may serve, as a kind of stepping stones, to lead us through his general meaning. where that immortal garland is to be run for, not...purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." " Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress. Foolish tongues!... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and (inbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race,...be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we hrinç not innocence into the world ; we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial,... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that...the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost thatvice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; f her whiteness... | |
 | Joseph Fletcher - England - 1849 - 320 pages
...following passages may serve, as a kind of stepping stones, to lead us through his general meaning. where that immortal garland is to be run for, not...purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." " Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress. Foolish tongues... | |
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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. 
