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 gar213 land is to be run for, not without dust and heat. The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson - Seite 262von Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1905Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Joseph Cook - 1881 - 230 Seiten
...until he wakes to find himself in chains of iron — his very will destroyed ? When Milton says, " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary," Dr. Crosby, you suppose, interprets it as meaning that boys should frequent gambling hells and such... | |
| 1881 - 146 Seiten
...victim, until he wakes to find himself in chains of iron, his very will destroyed ? When Milton says, " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary," Dr. Crosby, you suppose, interprets it as meaning that boys should frequent gamblinghells and such... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 Seiten
...Necvero hab're viriuffm safs est, quasi arfent aliquant, nisi iffare, and from our Milton, who says: " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal gartand is tobe run for, not without dust and heat"—Artop, He hnd taken the words out of tne Roman's... | |
| Second Church in Newton (West Newton, Mass.) - 1882 - 192 Seiten
...turning. He was in no way possessed of the "fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and un breathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race," to which Milton refers. He not only fought what he deemed to be heretical doctrines wherever he went,... | |
| Charles Edward Baines Reed - 1883 - 280 Seiten
...CHAPTER IV. PUBLIC SPIRIT. "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, notwithstanding dust and heat." THERE was nothing which, in his... | |
| Max Karl Gottschalk - 1883 - 402 Seiten
...opposes the tradition of prelacy." He was indeed forced to this course of action, refusing as he did " to praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without... | |
| John Milton - 1884 - 326 Seiten
...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1885 - 326 Seiten
...the Well, at daybreak. Fancy I have lived too retired a life of late. What says my friend MILTON ? "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary." Unite right. Virtue to be effective must be en evidence. So in spite of DJUIOCKITUS 1 snail " sully... | |
| Elizabeth Rachel Chapman - 1885 - 214 Seiten
...borrowed an expression : " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." One can fancy many a noble-hearted... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 Seiten
...of the Republic: — "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered, unexercised and unbreathed "irtue, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where thai immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat ' But Milton is only Platonic by... | |
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