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 without dust and heat. The Biglow Papers - Página 67por James Russell Lowell - 1861 - 200 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Wendell Phillips - 1891 - 508 páginas
...their 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...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... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1891 - 344 páginas
...vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain — 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, when that immortal garland is to be run for, not without... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1891 - 344 páginas
...vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain — 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, when that immortal garland is to be run for, not without... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russel Lowell - 1891 - 560 páginas
...Thet 's percisely the pint I was goin' to mention ; tern mtti est, gi«wi artem alir/uam, niti vtnre. and from our Milton, who says: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, nnexercised and unbreathed, tlmt iicver sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1892 - 344 páginas
...vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain — 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, when that immortal garland is to be run for, not without... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1892 - 456 páginas
...discovered tractate De Sepublica, tells us, Nee vero habere virtutem satis est, quasi artem aliquant, nisi utare, and from our Milton, who says : " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered A man thet lets all sorts o' folks git a sight on 't Ough' to hev it all took right away, every mite... | |
| Theodore F. Bonnet, Edward Francis O'Day - 1916 - 432 páginas
...exercised by means of our neighbor." Not for her the virtue that Milton said he could not praise — "the fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed that never sallies out and seeks her adversary." Temperamentally Catherine preferred the cloistered virtue, and practiced it as... | |
| Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 páginas
...thing beloved ; My words are only words, and move / Upon the topmost I froth of thought. Tennyson. spring on to another. Jean Paul. Look within. seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue. — Theodore Parker. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks put of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not... | |
| Lewis Beals Fisher - 1894 - 92 páginas
...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 the immortal garland is to be run for, not without... | |
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