 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? J3e that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that wiiiph is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christiany y cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...on his ermine, to their royal master Such miscreants are; not jewels in his crown. Voting. DCCCXCV. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Virtue unexercised,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...on his ermine, to their royal master Such miscreants are; not jewels in his crown. Young. DCCCXCV. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Virtue unexercised,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...dictates open all thy breast ; Be good, and Heaven will teach thee to be blest ! — — ^— BlSBOF. Ha that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexerciscd, and unbreathed, that never laities out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race... | |
 | Clergy - 1832 - 370 pages
...can be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil. He that can appreciate and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures,...yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly virtuous, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised... | |
 | Clergy - 1832 - 372 pages
...can be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil. He that can appreciate and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures,...yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly virtuous, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...life in the world, through his tenderness to beasts, birds, fishes, insects, and reptiles. * I cannut praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the rate where that immortal garland is to be inn for, not without dust and heat. — 31ilton. hm August... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 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...race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, cency, except men knew exactly all the conditions of the serpent ; his baseness and going upon his... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...— what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 596 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 'O author... | |
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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. 
