 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...they ought to do ; for it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innoACTIVE VIRTUE. I CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...where that immortal garland is to be run for, not cency, except men knew exactly all the conditions of the serpent ; his baseness and going upon his... | |
 | 1855 - 444 pages
...if he does not labor to ensure the result he professes to desire ? Well has Milton said, " I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." To the same end, Bacon tells us that the life " which does not cast any beam of heat or light upon... | |
 | 1896 - 854 pages
...sentence of the "Areopagitica:" — » Nineteenth Century, vol. vlU., pp. 401-403. September, 1880. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...that immortal garland is to be run for not without heat and dust. And he Bays: — Down to "virtue," the current S and R are both announced and repeated... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 pages
...our while to seek for a few truths under a whole heap of rubbish. — BISHOP TAYLOR. ACTIVE VIRTUE. I CANNOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. This was the reason why our sage and serious poet, Spenser, describing true temperance under the person... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pages
...ready with their auswer, " Custom ! Custom ! Ordinances ! Ordinances ! Fathers I " Milton, John. — I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and sweat. Nazianzen, Gregory. — Father of all through every hour, May I proclaim the Triune power, Enshrin'd... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...glass case in a drawing room," they too had sinned, and gone astray. As noble hearted Milton says, " He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...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... | |
 | Percival Frost - 1852 - 96 pages
...religion or prudence : it will turn into something that is good, if we list to make it so. LXXXVIII. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...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,... | |
 | G. V. Maxham - 1854 - 192 pages
...upon Psyche as an incessant labor to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermingled. * * * * As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom...slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is run for, not without dust and heat. That virtue therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation... | |
 | 1855 - 892 pages
...spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — MILTON. CLOISTERED VIRTUE. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — MILTON. IMPOLICY OF PUNISHING OPINION. The punishing of arts enhances their authority; and a forbidden... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1855 - 424 pages
...Christianity from which he had himself derived the greatest advantage. He could neither practice nor " praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."* The single-mindedness and pious zeal of Dr. Newton were strikingly apparent through the whole of his... | |
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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. 
