 | William Maxwell - 1850 - 502 pages
...and cloistered virtue, uuexercised and uubreathed, 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. — Milton. ON SEEING THE MOONBEAMS TREMBLING IN THE WATER. See here the fabling poet's dream, Diana... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...cloiftered virtue, unexercifed and unbreathed, that never fallies out and fees her adverfary." — " That virtue, therefore, which is but a 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." —... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland...purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. Th/t virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the eontemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland...much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and * Prose Works, vol. ii., p. 62. trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, notwithftanding duft and heat. AfTuredly 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... | |
 | Percival Frost - 1852 - 96 pages
...and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland...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,... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...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." Fit words these to accompany the extract we made above. " In the New Testament we have such matters... | |
 | 1853 - 394 pages
...cloistered virtue, nnexcrciged and unbreathed ; that never Rallies oat and seea her adversary, and slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — MILTOX. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. WE RECEIVE FROM TIME TO TIME some verydistressing communications from... | |
 | Edward Miall - 1853 - 464 pages
...cloistered virtue, unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland...not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, is but a blank virtue, not a pure : her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness ; which was the reason... | |
 | 1854 - 378 pages
...and cloistered virtue, unexerciscd 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. — John Milton. TESTIMONY то THE WOUTU OP THE POOR. — I have read books enough, arid observed... | |
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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. 
