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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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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 of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat;" for he sacrificed ease and...
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John Milton and His Times: An Historical Novel

Max Ring - Great Britain - 1868 - 330 pages
...true 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." "You forget that all men...
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John Milton and His Times: An Historical Novel

Max Ring - 1868 - 342 pages
...warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fagU tive and cloistered Virtue unexercised and vmbreathed, 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." "You forget that all men...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...(FROM THE SAME WOBK.) 1 CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised, and unbreathed,1 that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race,3 where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring...
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Choice notes on the Gospel of s. Luke, drawn from old and new sources

Bible - 1869 - 404 pages
...Home. Till the day, &c. 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 the immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly, we bring not innocence...
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The baptist Magazine

1869 - 844 pages
...cannot," writes John Milton, " praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, uuexerciscd 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 beat. Assuredly, we bring not innocence...
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The Chicago Medical Journal, Volume 28

Medicine - 1871 - 742 pages
...Areopagitica, puts it thus : "I can not 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 virtue is to be run for not without dust and heat. * * * That virtue which is but...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 554 pages
...the Republic : — ' I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered, nnexercised 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 heat.' But Milton is only Platonic...
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Phoenicia and Israel: A Historical Essay

Augustus Samuel Wilkins - Israel - 1871 - 236 pages
...in a long stern struggle with error. "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," will never work any great...
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History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volume 1

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...the Repullic : — ' 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 to be run for, not without dust and heat. ' But Milton is only Platonic...
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