...LIKE SHEEP. A NOVEL. BY AN ANONYMOUS WRITER. 16mo. 172 pages Price Is. 6d. in paper; 2s. in cloth. " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out to meet her adversary."— MILTON. "To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure...

...forgets the details of the Spenserian story. When insisting in the Arcopagittca that true virtue is not " a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and...that never sallies out and sees her adversary," but a virtue that has been tried and tested, he remarks that this " was the reason why our sage and serious...

...GARLAND A STORY OF AMERICAN LIFE BY ANNA ROBESON BROWN AUTHOR OF SIR MARK, A COSMOPOLITAN COMEDY, ETC. " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, 1'Hi slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not...

...as they are. He would have us grapple with evil as heroic combatants, not fly from its presence : " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without...

...does nothing, his gifts, unused, dying in his brain and heart. It is a true word which Milton wrote : "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...

...cowardice which is afraid of life and its stern conditions. Milton's noble words are applicable here : " 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...

...him to transcend the limitations of Greek morality, and to prepare the way for deeper conceptions " 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...

...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...

...the rest which never ends — the peace that passeth understanding. CHAPTER XI. LOGICAL MORALITY. " 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...

...and wicked in action without having ceased to be just and good in soul" This maxim may do for that " fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks its adversary," which Milton could not praise, — that is, for a manhood whose distinction it...