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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. "
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by Chandos Leigh - 1819 - 28 pages
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...virtue was not to be praised, a virtue imexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." These are some of his arguments against placed the press under the control! of a state inquisitor,...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies...
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The baptist Magazine

1858 - 860 pages
...conduct. I breathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where tbat immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat, . . which was the reawn why our sage and serious poet Spenser (whom I dare be known to think a bolter...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...virtue was not to he praised, a 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." These are some of his arguments against those, who affected to consider the restraint of the press...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 19

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...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...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." It is scarcely credible how any Christian, bearing in mind the spirit which elevated our blessed Saviour...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 32

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...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...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 his own, without any consideration...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather. \That which purifies...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

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 rather. That which purifies...
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The North American Review, Volume 25

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1827 - 516 pages
...rest. He knew the toil and danger which awaited him ; but he knew also that he had taken his part in ' the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' His great soul was in itself gentle and open as day, and in gentler times would not have appeared in...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies...
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