 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 510 pàgines
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that Vice promises to her followers and rejects it, is but a blank virtue,...not a pure ;* her whiteness is but an excremental [superficial] whiteness : which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spenser — whom I dare... | |
 | 1858 - 866 pàgines
...reason why the sage and serious poet, Spenser, describing true temperance under the person of Guión, brings him in with his palmer through the cave of mammon and the bower of earthly bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. THE POOR WASHERWOMAN. " T... | |
 | Arthur Lloyd Windsor - 1860 - 428 pàgines
...virtue, which is but a youngling in a contemplation of earth, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue,...pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness," &C.1 I have spoken of Milton's power of realization, that wondrous power, which has made so many generations... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pàgines
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue,...in with his palmer through the cave of Mammon, and the bower of earthly bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. WE CANNOT EXCLUDE TEMPTATION... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1862 - 584 pàgines
...divinity. Dr. Channing says this of Milton ; and Milton, before him, said the same of Spenser, — " our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be...to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas." But not only poets, the better class of theologians are also continually coming nearer to this view... | |
 | 696 pàgines
...That which puriSes us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary, which was the reason why our sage, serious poet, Spenser (whom I dare be known to think...Aquinas), describing true temperance under the person of Guyon, brings him with his palmer through the Cave of Mammon and the Bower of Bliss, that he might... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pàgines
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that Vice promises to her followers and rejects it, is but a blank virtue,...— describing true temperance under the person of Guyon, brings him in with his Palmer through the cave of Mammon and the Bower of earthly Bliss, that... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 520 pàgines
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue,...in with his palmer through the cave of Mammon, and the bower of earthly bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. Since therefore the knowledge... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1866 - 494 pàgines
...That which purifies is trial, and trial is by what is contrary ; which was the reason why our sage, serious poet Spenser — whom I dare be known to think...— describing true temperance under the person of Guyon, brings him, with his palmer, through the Cave of Mammon and the Bower of Bliss, that he might... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 pàgines
...it, is but a blank virtue. — Miltcni. This was the reason why our sage and serious poet, Spenser, describing true temperance under the person of Guion,...in with his palmer through the cave of Mammon and the bower of earthly bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. — Anon. The habit of virtue... | |
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That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure... 
