| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
...warfariug Christian. 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 garland is to be run for not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 416 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 the immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. * * * ; That virtue, therefore,... | |
| English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...way-faring 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... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 408 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 the immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. * * * * That virtue, therefore,... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1873 - 470 pages
...one phrase which for manly beauty and enthusiasm recalls the tone of the Republic : — " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." 2 But Milton is only Platonic... | |
| John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1873 - 130 pages
...warfaring ' Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Vertue, unexercised and unbreath'd, 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... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1873 - 484 pages
...our Milton, who says: " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, uncxercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the raее where that immortal garland is tobe run for, not without dust and neat." — Areop. He had taken... | |
| E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...wayfaring Christian. 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 garlanc is to be run for, not without dusl and heat. — Milton. The Greatest of... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 274 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, and not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not... | |
| Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...the whole of his vast powers to the service of humanity. JOHN MILTON. 215 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... | |
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