 | F. Regina Psaki, Charles Hindley - Religion - 2001 - 394 pages
...unassayeoV Alone, without exterior help sustained?" (DC, 335—336) In Areopagitica Milton says that "we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather." But "which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary." "Blank vertue" is not a pure... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 2003 - 244 pages
...appears a desirable retreat from the conflicts of politics and love. But see Milton, Areopagitica (1644): 'I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' 214 Tibur Claude charts in his imagination the surroundings of Horace's Sabine farm. Tibur is Tivoli,... | |
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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. 
