 | 1854 - 378 pages
...better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexerciscd and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — John Milton. TESTIMONY то THE WOUTU OP THE POOR. — I have read books enough, arid observed... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I can not 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... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - Newton, Robert, 1780-1854 - 1855 - 424 pages
...Christianity from which he had himself derived the greatest advantage. He could neither practice nor " praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."* The single-mindedness and pious zeal of Dr. Newton were strikingly apparent through the whole of his... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 510 pages
...is, 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,... | |
 | George William Curtis - Citizenship - 1856 - 46 pages
...across two hundred years, with a voice of multitudinous music, like that of a great wind in a forest: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...race where that immortal garland is to be run for, notwithstanding dust and heat." Can you not fancy the parish beadles getting up and walking rapidly... | |
 | 1857 - 564 pages
...but the logic in his pulse decay, The Grecian he'll renounce, and learn to pray. REAL VIRTUE ACTIVE. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...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... | |
 | Julia Addison - 1857 - 684 pages
...is, 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, unexperienced and unbreathed,... | |
 | 1857 - 280 pages
...hundred years, •with a voice of multitudinous music, like that of a great wind in a forest: " I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...race where that immortal garland is to be run for, notwithstanding dust and heat." Can you not fancy the parish beadles getting up and walking rapidly... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 pages
...vero habere virtutem satis est, quasi artem aliquam, nisi utare, and from our Milton, who says,—" I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...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 exclaim... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1858 - 328 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,...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and keatS' — Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it. and might well... | |
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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. 
