 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.  A Treasury of English Prose - Page 84edited by - 1920 - 237 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Miall - Great Britain - 1849 - 498 pages
...He that can apprehend," says John Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing — " He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot," he continues, " praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of Evil ! He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her...abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which a truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pages
...ready with their auswer, " Custom ! Custom ! Ordinances ! Ordinances ! Fathers I " Milton, John. — 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... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifli, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloiftered virtue, unexercifed and unbreathed,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...apprehend and confider vice with all her baits and feeming pleafures, and yet abftain, and yet diftinguifh, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Chriftian. I cannot praife a fugitive and cloifter'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd,... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...glass case in a drawing room," they too had sinned, and gone astray. As noble hearted Milton says, " He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfariug Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baitsand seeming pleasures and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,...truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out... | |
 | Arts - 1853 - 394 pages
...with what is here referred to, being doubtless referable to her attractive powers. A "HEAL" CHRISTIAN. He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and vet distinguish, and yet prefer tnht which is truly tetter — he is the true wayfaring Christian.... | |
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