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... Readings in English literature, prose - Page 77de English literature - 1874Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 408 pages
...out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, not without duft and heat. Affuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is triall, and trial! is by what is contrary. trary. That vertue therefore Which is but a youngling in... | |
| Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...of the race, where that immortall' garland is to be run for, not without-' duft and heat. Afluredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies. vts is triall, and. triall is by what is contrary. trary. That vertue therefore wPiicfi i* but a youngling... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without duft and heat. Affuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmoft that vice promifes to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...that which purifies us in trial, and trial is hy what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is hut a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows...vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is hut a hlank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is hut an excremcntal whiteness; which was the reason... | |
| Francis Maseres - 1809 - 638 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run-for, not without dud and heat. Affuredly we bring not innocence into the world; we bring impurity...That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the comtemplatiou of evil, and knows not the uimoll that vice proraifes to her followers, and rejefts it,... | |
| Francis Maseres - 1809 - 636 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run-for, not without duft and heat. Afluredly we bring not innocence into the world ; we bring impurity...is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a young* ling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the ulmoft that vice promifes to her followers,... | |
| John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...cloister'd." It is beside more consonant to Scripture, and therefore more likely to have come from we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary. That Vertue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation... | |
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| Central Society of Education (London, England), John Lalor, John Abraham Heraud, Edward Higginson, James Simpson - 1839 - 566 pages
...mere " prosody of a verse," as he terms it, of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue, therefore,... | |
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