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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 [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed - Page 258
by Laconics - 1829
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The Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer, Volume 5

Theology - 1835 - 516 pages
...their tendency : — ' I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexerciscd and (inbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where the immorul garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' Still for an author, and an author...
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The cynosure, select passages from the most distinguished writers [ed. by ...

Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...it! Like a centinel, Who sleeps upon his watch, it wakes in dread Ev'n at a breath of wind. HAV\UD. I CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. MILTON. WHAT is it to have A flattering false inscription on a tomb, And in men's hearts reproach ?...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 52

1834 - 602 pages
...unlicensed printing, but for the indiscriminate reading of all works, whatever their tendency : — ' I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where the immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' Still for an author, and an author...
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THE REVIVALIST

REV. JOSEPH BELCHER - 1839 - 444 pages
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Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South ...

Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 398 pages
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Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South ...

Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...they ought to do ; for it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innoACTIVE VIRTUE. I CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...where that immortal garland is to be run for, not cency, except men knew exactly all the conditions of the serpent ; his baseness and going upon his...
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The Church of England Magazine, Volume 7

1839 - 498 pages
...but a useful part. " I cannot praise," says Milton, " a fugitive and cloistered virtue, un exercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat" Happy that Christian who while using this world as not abusing it, intent above all things on promoting...
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The Educator: Prize Essays on the Expediency and Means of Elevating the ...

Central Society of Education (London, England), John Lalor, John Abraham Heraud, Edward Higginson, James Simpson - Educators - 1839 - 566 pages
...passionate," should have precedence of logic ; not, of course, the mere " prosody of a verse," as he terms it, of the race where that immortal garland is to be run...bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue, therefore,...
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Selections from the works of Taylor, Hooker, Barrow [and others] by B. Montagu

Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...columbine innoACTIVE VIRTUE. I CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and nnbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but...where that immortal garland is to be run for, not cency, except men knew exactly all the conditions of the serpent ; hts baseness and going upon his...
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The Educator: Prize Essays on the Expediency and Means of Elevating the ...

Central Society of Education (London, England), John Lalor, John Abraham Heraud, Edward Higginson, James Simpson - Educators - 1839 - 558 pages
...abstain, and yet distinguish, yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. 1 cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out 163. The chief evil to be dreaded in forming principles, is their taking a sectarian taint, which enlarged...
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