 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmoft that vice promifes to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 436 pages
...we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmoft that vice promifes to her followers, and rcjects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 440 pages
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmoft that vice promifes to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whitenefs is but an excremental whitenefs ; which was the reafon why our iage and ferious poefc Spenfer,... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...that which purifies us in trial, and trial is hy what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is hut a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows...vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is hut a hlank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is hut an excremcntal whiteness; which was the reason... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in...which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spenser, (whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas,) describing true temperance... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies out and sees her Adversary that which is but a youngling in the contemplation of Evil,...and rejects it, is but a blank Virtue, not a pure. • Since, therefore, the knowledge and survey of Vice is in this world so necessary to theconstituting... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...by what is contrary. That Vertue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evill, and knows not the utmost that Vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank Vertue, not a pure ; her whitenesse is but an excrementall whitenesse2; which was the reason why our... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...world, we bring impurity much rather. That which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in...which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas, describing true temperance... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...we bring impurity much rather. \That which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what, is contrary.^ That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in...excremental whiteness, which was the reason why our sage and jcriqus poet Spenser, whom I dare be known ^to think~aTEetteFTeacher than Scotus or Aquinas, describing... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure. — Milton. DCCCXCVI. Consider, that the invisible thing called a good name, is made up of the breath... | |
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Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That... 
