 | Universalism - 1855 - 444 pages
...if he does not labor to ensure the result he professes to desire ? Well has Milton said, " I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." To the same end, Bacon tells us that the life " which does not cast any beam of heat or light upon... | |
 | Literature - 1896 - 854 pages
...sentence of the "Areopagitica:" — » Nineteenth Century, vol. vlU., pp. 401-403. September, 1880. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...that immortal garland is to be run for not without heat and dust. And he Bays: — Down to "virtue," the current S and R are both announced and repeated... | |
 | Theology - 1844 - 472 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 open and gentle as day, and in gentler times would not have appeared in... | |
 | Theology - 1845 - 632 pages
...Spare Minutes. TEMPTATION REPELLED. — I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexcrcised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, wliere that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and sweat. This was the reason why... | |
 | Universalism - 1861 - 462 pages
...dawn, never more hear the bird of morning sing." In the Areopogitica occurs the following passage : "1 cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never rallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...our while to seek for a few truths under a whole heap of rubbish. — BISHOP TAYLOR. ACTIVE VIRTUE. I CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. This was the reason why our sage and serious poet, Spenser, describing true temperance under the person... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...unex^ercisetl, and unbreathed, that never sallies out.aud_sie5~hcr adversary, btit shnks 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 much rather ; that which... | |
 | William Charles Townsend - Judges - 1846 - 548 pages
...allurements of a corrupt ambition, has been a life of honour, integrity, and independence. His has not been a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out to meet her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where the immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...war faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and (inbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but...be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we hrinç not innocence into the world ; we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial,... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
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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. 
