 | Jean-François Vallée, Dorothea B. Heitsch - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 332 pages
...the persistence and hopeful purification of original sin through a related principle of contrariety: 'Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world,...bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary' (my emphasis) (2:515). Though very closely aligned, Milton's... | |
 | Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 520 pages
...Areopagitica [CPW 2.5 15], "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." [V] ^Areopagitica [CPW 2.527], in the... | |
 | Karen A. Finlay - History - 2004 - 372 pages
...trained aesthetic conscience its opportunity and its appropriate task. In a famous passage Milton says: 'I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary.' ... This was written, or course, in terms of a moral issue. If we apply it to... | |
 | Andrew King, John Plunkett - Popular literature - 2004 - 608 pages
...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary." Of course Milton is here referring to men and women, but his remarks are suggestive... | |
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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. 
