 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
 | 1857 - 280 sidor
...hundred years, •with a voice of multitudinous music, like that of a great wind in a forest: " 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, notwithstanding... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 sidor
...vero habere virtutem satis est, quasi artem aliquam, nisi utare, and from our Milton, who says,—" 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... | |
 | 1858 - 866 sidor
...our gracious Preserver after having been seven weeks at sea. A BATTLE MUST PRECEDE VICTORY. 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 without... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 600 sidor
...of truth ;' and that there were temptations which were only innocuous upon his principle, that ' ho that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true waifaring Christian." The following graphic description of some of the social aspects of London is... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1859 - 236 sidor
...vero habere virtutem satis est, quasi artem aliquam, nisi utare, and from our Milton, who says, — " 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1859 - 226 sidor
...vero habere nrtutem satis est, quasi artem aliquam, nisi utare, and from our Milton, who says,—-" 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... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 sidor
...to virtue and strength consists in full walking amid both, distinguishing, avoiding, and choosing. " I cannot praise a " fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unexercised and unbreathed, " that never sallies out to see her adversary, but slinks out of " the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not"... | |
 | Edward Miall - 1861 - 296 sidor
...He that can apprehend,' says John Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing—' He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, conspicuously in regard to those which are higher, indeed, but more remote ? We have to bear in mind... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1861 - 236 sidor
...vero habere virtutem satis eat, quo6iarlem aliguam, nisi utare, and from our Milton, who says,—"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... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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... | |
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