 | John Milton - 1835 - 976 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly al godhead ! look upon this thy poor and almost spent and expiring church, leave utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her... | |
 | Central Society of Education (London, England), John Lalor, John Abraham Heraud, Edward Higginson, James Simpson, Mrs. G. R. Porter - Teachers - 1839 - 535 pages
...for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial...youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her... | |
 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 470 pages
...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...youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840
...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...youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 546 pages
...cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, that never sallies out and sees her adversary : — that ct of the prophet. In short, whatever tpecific import we attach to the w utmost that Vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a Hank Virtue, not a pure. — Since,... | |
 | John Milton - 1845
...out ofthe race, where that immortal garland is to be run ' for, not without dust aad heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...trial is by what is contrary. ^That virtue therefore" WhlChis but a'ySPtigllng "in the Contemplation oPevil^and knows not the utmost that vice promises_... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847
...out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence in utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her... | |
 | Joseph Fletcher - 1847
...general meaning. 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...purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." " Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress. Foolish tongues!... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 587 pages
...race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we hrinç not innocence into the world ; we bring impurity much...purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary, rhat virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost... | |
 | John Milton - English prose literature - 1848
...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...youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost thatvice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; f her... | |
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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. Assuredly we bring not innocence... 
