 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1893 - 428 pages
...evil, thought Milton, tests and hardens the cipie of resistance offered to it by the good. He could not 'praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' Holding such views, Milton was not likely to be well satisfied with the conduct of the Assembly of... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1894 - 448 pages
...hardens the The prm- '• cipieof resistance offered to it by the good. He could not liberty. . . . . , . praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' Holding such views, Milton was not likely to be well satisfied with the conduct of the Assembly of... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 520 pages
...across two hundred years, with a voice of multitudinous music, like that of a great wind in a forest : " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...race where that immortal garland is to be run for, notwith- -, standing dust and heat." Can you not fancy the parish beadles getting up and walking rapidly... | |
 | American Academy of Medicine - 1895 - 752 pages
...imperfectly and incompletely considered. You all remember the eloquent words of John Milton : '• I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." Ours has not been " a fugitive and cloistered virtue," but has been constantly active, and has been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 252 pages
...system of morality, monastic morality, which holds pleasure itself to be vice." — Ibid., III. 292. "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...garland is to be run for not without dust and heat." — Milton's Areopagitica (Hales), p. 18. 31, it is. Note the redundant subject it, the real subject... | |
 | Darius Francis Lamson - 1895 - 500 pages
...that honesty and intelligence can always win if they will. Blind Milton saw clearly when he wrote : " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...garland is to be run for not without dust and heat." Least of all in a republic hax Hitch virtue place. In his recent final retirement from political life... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1898 - 700 pages
...I chose without previous analysis, simply as engaging passages that had long re-echoed in my ear. " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." 1 Down to "virtue," the current S and R are both announced and repeated unobtrusively, and byway of... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1898 - 700 pages
...I chose without previous analysis, simply as engaging passages that had long re-echoed in my ear. " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."1 Down to "virtue," the current S and R are both announced and repeated unobtrusively, and by... | |
 | John Milton, Hiram Corson - 1899 - 354 pages
...he did not mean that that was all of education. And in his 'Areopagitica,' he says, after defining 'the true warfaring Christian,' 'I cannot praise a...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' Although the direct subjects of his polemic prose works may not have an interest for the general reader... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 346 pages
...he did not mean that that was all of education. And in his 'Areopagitica,' he says, after defining 'the true warfaring Christian,' 'I cannot praise a...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' Although the direct subjects of his polemic prose works may not have an interest for the general reader... | |
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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. 
