 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.  Chapters from the Bible of the Ages - Page 161edited by - 1872 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better,...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... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...life in the world, through his tenderness to beasts, birds, fishes, insects, and reptiles. * I cannut praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the rate where that immortal garland is to be inn for, not without dust and heat. — 31ilton. hm August... | |
 | 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».... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet Holy Scripture, unfolding those chaste and high mysteries, with timel warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue imcxercised, and unbreathed,... | |
 | 1836 - 574 pages
...can apprehend and consider Vice, with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better,...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... | |
 | Samuel Eells - 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
...yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered...unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
 | 1835 - 516 pages
...their tendency : — ' I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexerciscd and (inbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where the immorul garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' Still for an author, and an author on... | |
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