 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.  Examinations Papers - Page 1871894Full view - About this book
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...birds, fishes, insects, and reptiles. » I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexerciscd and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the r.ue where that immortal garland is to be ii'n for, not without dust and heat. — Milton. b. i».... | |
 | Clergy - 1832 - 370 pages
...without the knowledge of evil. He that can appreciate and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly virtuous, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised... | |
 | Clergy - 1832 - 372 pages
...without the knowledge of evil. He that can appreciate and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly virtuous, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 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...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, cency, except men knew exactly all the conditions of the serpent... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 596 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 'O author... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue imcxercised, and unbreathed,... | |
 | 1836 - 574 pages
...Cabuut. VICE AND VIRTUE. — He that can apprehend and consider Vice, with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — Milton. THE EXCELLENCY OF THE... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 426 pages
...practice; we "cannot praise a fugitive and * Historical Memoirs of the Church of France, pp. 266, 267. cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where the immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." Mr. Hume, it is true, himself no... | |
 | Samuel Eells - Classical education - 1836 - 276 pages
...and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet distinguish, and yet abstain, and prefer that which is truly better, he is the true...Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue that never sallies out and sees her adversary. That which is a youngling in contemplation of evil and... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed,... | |
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