 I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.  The American Quarterly Register - Pàgina 2831832Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1858 - 860 pàgines
...baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstnin, and distinguish, and prefer that which ia truly better, is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexeroieefl end 'ims'powBrful temptation ; if I find, for instance, that it excites unholy desires,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pàgines
...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise...that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but As for the burning of those Ephesian books by St Paul's converts, it is replied, the books were magic,... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 pàgines
...life in the world, through his tenderness to beasts, birds, fishes, insects, and reptiles. * I cannut praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the rate where that immortal garland is to be inn for, not without dust and heat. — 31ilton. hm August... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pàgines
...birds, fishes, insects, and reptiles. » I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexerciscd and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the r.ue where that immortal garland is to be ii'n for, not without dust and heat. — Milton. b. i».... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pàgines
...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue imcxercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race,... | |
 | Central Society of Education (London, England), John Lalor, John Abraham Heraud, Edward Higginson, James Simpson - 1839 - 558 pàgines
...abstain, and yet distinguish, yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. 1 cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out 163. The chief evil to be dreaded in forming principles, is their taking a sectarian taint, which enlarged... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pàgines
...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue un exercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the... | |
 | William Hone - 1841 - 840 pàgines
...longer life in the world, through his tenderness to beasts, birds, fishes, insects, and reptiles.» I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the rate where that immortal garland is to be rim for, not without dust and heat. — Milton. August 21.... | |
 | 1845 - 632 pàgines
...Spare Minutes. TEMPTATION REPELLED. — I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexcrcised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, wliere that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and sweat. This was the reason why... | |
 | 1861 - 462 pàgines
...dawn, never more hear the bird of morning sing." In the Areopogitica occurs the following passage : "1 cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never rallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to... | |
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