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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. "
Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors - Page 252
by John Timbs - 1829
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Kidd's Own Journal, Volume 3

Arts - 1853 - 394 pages
...cloistered virtue, nnexcrciged and unbreathed ; that never Rallies oat and seea her adversary, and slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — MILTOX. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. WE RECEIVE FROM TIME TO TIME some verydistressing communications from...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary." — "That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary." — " That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not...
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A Sickle for the Harvest

G. V. Maxham - Sermons, American - 1854 - 192 pages
...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is run for, not without dust and heat. That virtue therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation...
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The New York Journal: An Illustrated Literary Periodical, Volume 1

1854 - 378 pages
...better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexerciscd and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — John Milton. TESTIMONY то THE WOUTU OP THE POOR. — I have read books enough, arid observed...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...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...
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The Defender

1855 - 892 pages
...spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — MILTON. CLOISTERED VIRTUE. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — MILTON. IMPOLICY OF PUNISHING OPINION. The punishing of arts enhances their authority; and a forbidden...
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The Life of the Rev. Robert Newton, D.D.

Thomas Jackson - Newton, Robert, 1780-1854 - 1855 - 424 pages
...Christianity from which he had himself derived the greatest advantage. He could neither practice nor " praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."* The single-mindedness and pious zeal of Dr. Newton were strikingly apparent through the whole of his...
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The Duty of the American Scholar to Politics and the Times: An Oration ...

George William Curtis - Citizenship - 1856 - 46 pages
...across two hundred years, with a voice of multitudinous music, like that of a great wind in a forest: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...race where that immortal garland is to be run for, notwithstanding dust and heat." Can you not fancy the parish beadles getting up and walking rapidly...
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The Christian's penny magazine, and friend of the people [ed. by J. Campbell ...

Congregational union of England and Wales - 1856 - 754 pages
...warfaring Christian. I carhnr ; praise a fugitive and cloistered j virtue, unexercised and unbreathad, that never sallies out and sees her ! adversary, but slinks out of tb-. race where that immortal garlaoJ is to be run for, not without dust and heat.— Milton. THE POWER...
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