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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. "
Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes... - Page 110
by Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 764 pages
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The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...: Complete in Two Volumes, Volume 2

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...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 2

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...
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The Monthly Journal of the American Unitarian Association, Volume 6

American Unitarian Association - Unitarian churches - 1865 - 584 pages
...truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, when that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. When a man has been laboring...
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The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...

James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1866 - 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,...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust anil heat." — Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it, and might...
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The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...

James Russell Lowell - Poetry - 1866 - 322 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,...where that immortal garland is to be run for, not ivithout dust and keat.'*' 1 — Areop. He had taken the words out of the Eoman's mouth, without knowing...
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The Biglow Papers

James Russell Lowell - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1866 - 220 pages
...utare, and from our Milton, who says, — "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, nnexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her...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...
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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...could I not look around, By the reflexion of your pleasure pleased.t WORDSWORTH. The Excursion. • 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...
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The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind

Henry Maudsley - Insanity (Law) - 1867 - 476 pages
...virtue in the making. " I cannot praise," continues Milton, after saying that we know good by evil, " a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust or heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which...
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The History, Object, and Proper Observance of the Holy Season of Lent

William Ingraham Kip - Lent - 1867 - 246 pages
...world, even our faith." There is true wisdom indeed in the eloquent words of Milton, when he says — " He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is are asylums, to which respectable females " when thrown out upon the world by the dissolution of their...
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Whitby Authors and Their Publications with the Titles of All the Books ...

Gideon Smales - Authors - 1867 - 294 pages
...or, as Milton says, "praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, thatnever sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat;" for he sacrificed ease and quiet and performed deeds of noble enterprize in the defence and for the...
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