 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 90redigerad av - 1920 - 237 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Henry Southgate - 1862
...is melted out and separated, aud the dross cast away anj consumed. flarel. CHRISTIAN— Proofs of a. He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he ¡я the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and... | |
 | Roger D. Sell - 2000 - 348 sidor
...control their thoughts. As Milton put it, a much better idea is to let them face temptations head-on. 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... | |
 | Brian Stewart Hook, Russell R. Reno - 2000 - 253 sidor
...However, unlike Spenser, Milton applies this language to the single temperate moment of obedience.10 "He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures," writes Milton, "and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001
...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 her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - 262 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 her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
 | David E. E. Sloane - 2001 - 188 sidor
...to vice and abstained from it could be true wayfaring Christians. Milton concluded that he could 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... | |
 | John Anthony Burrow, John Pitcher, Brian Vickers, Isobel Grundy, Claire Lamont, Andrew Sanders, Bernard Bergonzi, Martin Dodsworth - 2001 - 528 sidor
...inseparably', then we need to know evil in order to be able to reject it by a deliberate act of will: He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasutes, and yer . . . prefer that whieh Is truly berter, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot... | |
 | Victoria Silver - 2001 - 409 sidor
...distinct from the things conveying it, which does not confuse the image with its significance and so can "yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better." For that reason, in Milton's view, Spenser is a better teacher than Aquinas or Scotus, because as a... | |
 | Owen Parnaby - 2002 - 232 sidor
...wanted to see it again. Paul Harris would concur with John Milton's description of a virtuous man: 'He that can apprehend and consider vice with all...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian'.10 Paul Harris put his faith in friendship, not out of ignorance of the evil in... | |
 | Louis Daniel Brodsky - 1996 - 633 sidor
...exegesis of the beastly Jack Donne 10/19/65 — I11 1 05333) The Trial of Christopher Paradise, Pariah / 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... | |
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