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" That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure... "
The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles ... - Page 98
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1837
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

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...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

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...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

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...
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Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly ..., Volume 9

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...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

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...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness ; which was the reason why our sage and serious poet...
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

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...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

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...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness, which was the reason why our sage and serious poet...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

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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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 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...followers, 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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The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: With His Letters and ..., Volume 2

George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 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...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness; which was the reason why our sage and serious poet...
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