 | Arthur Lloyd Windsor - English literature - 1860 - 428 pages
...of the good," &c. What a contrast to the fused warmth which Milton infuses into the same subject. " 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 when that immortal garland is to be run for, not without... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Poetry - 1861 - 236 pages
...vero habere virtutem satis eat, quo6iarlem aliguam, nisi utare, and from our Milton, who says,—"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.—Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it, and might well... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American wit and humor - 1861 - 244 pages
...vero kabere virtatem satis estt quasi artem aliquam, nisi utare, and from our Milton, who says, — "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...where that immortal garland is to be run for, not withoat dust and heat. — Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing... | |
 | John Tulloch - Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 - 1861 - 536 pages
...— "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathcd, that never seeks out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the...garland is to be run for not without dust and heat." Elsewhere he says grandly, and in tho highest spirit of freedom, " Though all the winds of doctrine... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he ¡я the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and set-s her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - Essays - 1862 - 512 pages
...sober men. Some of Milton's contemporaries entertained a similar ambition. They were content to cherish 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 without... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 330 pages
...vero habere virtutem satis est, quasi artem aliquant, nisi utare, and from our Milton, who says,—"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." 1 '— Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it, and might well exclaim... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 738 pages
...in England.) I. I cannotpraise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed virtue, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and beat. (P. 429.) 2. Heneverleft baiting andgoringthesuccessorof hisbest Lord Constantine by his barking... | |
 | Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 414 pages
...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary." — " That virtue, there* According to the old adage : you are not hanged for stealing a horsa, but... | |
 | 1863 - 836 pages
...that will inevitably result from this course of conduct. To quote the words of the immortal Milton, " Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies ue is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." Devotion to duty, eg, is a virtue that is generated... | |
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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. 
