 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.  A Treasury of English Prose - Sida 84redigerad av - 1920 - 237 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1855 - 444 sidor
...if he does not labor to ensure the result he professes to desire ? Well has Milton said, " I can not 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... | |
 | 1861 - 462 sidor
...dawn, never more hear the bird of morning sing." In the Areopogitica occurs the following passage : "1 cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never rallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 sidor
...is , what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can • apprehend and consider vice with all...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... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 sidor
...themselves, wisely to abstain from such diet which docs not nourish. Tfly/or's Dissuasive from Popery. He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her baits and «ceming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer Uut which is truly better,... | |
 | William Charles Townsend - 1846 - 548 sidor
...allurements of a corrupt ambition, has been a life of honour, integrity, and independence. His has not been a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out to meet her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where the immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sidor
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ! arth with his beautiful step«, wrought the works...once so glorious and famous for their happy estate, unciereis«! and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sidor
...forbear, without the knowledge of evil ! He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all her baita uncxcrciaed and unbreathcd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 sidor
...is— what wisdom can there lie to choose, what continence to tortear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleawires, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that »Inch is truly better, he is... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 568 sidor
...can there be to choose, •what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can 'I apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and j ! yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he 1 j is the true... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 sidor
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ! had been lost to all the o sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without... | |
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