 | 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... | |
 | 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
...and yet distinguish, arid yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...race, where that immortal 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...yet distinguish, and yet prefer that wiiiph is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christiany y cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...appointed. These men practised the books; another might perhaps have read them in some sort usefully. slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...on his ermine, to their royal master Such miscreants are; not jewels in his crown. Voting. DCCCXCV. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Virtue unexercised,...race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...on his ermine, to their royal master Such miscreants are; not jewels in his crown. Young. DCCCXCV. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Virtue unexercised,...race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather;... | |
 | 1832 - 370 pages
...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,...race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. That which purifies is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." The whole... | |
 | 1832 - 372 pages
...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,...race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. That which purifies is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." The whole... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexerciscd, and unbreathed, that never laities 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. — MILTON. Hew is the world deceived by noise and show ! Alas ! how different,... | |
 | 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...race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, cency, except men knew exactly all the conditions of the serpent ; his baseness and going upon his... | |
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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. 
