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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. "
The Harvard Classics - Page 208
1909
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...good by evil; and that a fugitive and cloistered virtue was not to be praised, a virtue unexerciscd and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." These are some of his arguments against placed the press under the contrail of a state inquisitor,...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...been that of knowing good by evil; and that a fugitive and cloistered virtue was not to ffe praised, a virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies...garland is to be run for not without dust and heat." These are some of his arguments against those, who affected to consider the restraint of the press...
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Scraps

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 482 pages
...grapple: Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? " Again : " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...immortal garland is to be run for— not without dust and beat." a single syllable on the Royal Prerogative, till the King had been proclaimed an enemy by the...
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd Vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but...immortal! garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat1. Assuredly 1 He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her baits •nd seeming pleasures,...
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The View

Chandos Leigh - 1819 - 82 pages
...a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreatlied, that never sallies out and sees its adversary; but slinks out of the race, where that...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." — MILTON'S Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing. (6) " What are its natives now but imps...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 19

Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pages
...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." It is scarcely credible how any Christian, bearing in mind the spirit which elevated our blessed Saviour...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 pages
...been that of knowing good by evil ; and that a fugitive and cloistered virtue was not to be praised, a virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies...adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal gar71 The turbulent and profligate Sixtus IV. whose enormities were exceeded only by those of Alexander...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 32

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pages
...distinguish, arid yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' It is evident that he is here writing for the few exalted natures like his own, without any consideration...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but As for the burning of those Ephesian books by St Paul's converts, it is replied, the books were magic,...
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The North American Review, Volume 25

1827 - 516 pages
...rest. He knew the toil and danger which awaited him ; but he knew also that he had taken his part in ' the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' His great soul was in itself gentle and open as day, and in gentler times would not have appeared in...
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