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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. "
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 104, no. 4, 1960) - Page 407
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The Biglow Papers

James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1859 - 226 pages
...Milton, who says,—-" 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.—Areop. He had taken the...
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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate

Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...Fraise for becoming a. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue uncxerciscd and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland ia to bo run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence...
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Selections from the prose writings of John Milton, ed. with memoir, notes ...

John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...warfaring Christian. 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. Assuredly we bring not innocence...
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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 slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and beat. (P. 429.) 2. Heneverleft baiting...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 540 pages
...et naturelles*. 1 . I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered , unexercised and unbreathed virtue, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is lo be run for, not without dust and heat. (P. 429.) 2. He never left...
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The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...

James Russell Lowell - Poetry - 1866 - 322 pages
...Milton, who says,—" 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 ivithout dust and keat.'*' 1 — Areop. He had taken...
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Life and Times of John Milton

William Carlos Martyn - Great Britain - 1866 - 328 pages
...evil. A fugitive and cloistered virtue is not to be praised — a 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." Milton scouts the idea of...
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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...WORDSWORTH. The Excursion. • 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. Assuredly we bring not innocence...
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The History, Object, and Proper Observance of the Holy Season of Lent

William Ingraham Kip - Lent - 1867 - 246 pages
...wayfaring Christian. 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. That which purifies us is...
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The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind

Henry Maudsley - Biological psychiatry - 1867 - 506 pages
...after saying that we know good by evil, " 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 or heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence...
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