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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.

Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors - Page 258
by Laconics, John Timbs - 1829
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Christ's College Magazine, Milton Tercentenary Number V 23, Issue 68

Various - Religion - 2008 - 124 pages

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The Imperfect Friend: Emotion and Rhetoric in Sidney, Milton, and Their Contexts

Wendy Olmsted - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 293 pages

...yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian ... Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we...bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary' (Areopagitica, CPWII.514-15). Adam and Eve have not yet...

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Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English ...

Paul A. Rahe - Political Science - 2008

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