| Edward Miall - 1861 - 296 páginas
...He that can apprehend,' says John Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing—' He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, conspicuously in regard to those which are higher, indeed, but more remote ? We have to bear in mind... | |
| John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 páginas
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice, with all...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 páginas
...is melted out and separated, aud the dross cast away anj consumed. flarel. CHRISTIAN— Proofs of a. He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he ¡я the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 512 páginas
...sober men. Some of Milton's contemporaries entertained a similar ambition. They were content to cherish 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... | |
| Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 414 páginas
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with, all...truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out... | |
| 1865 - 838 páginas
...Parliament any more than we can fence out disease and death. John Milton, Puritan as he was, did not love "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 - 1866 - 500 páginas
...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. VI 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... | |
| William Ingraham Kip - 1867 - 246 páginas
...world, even our faith." There is true wisdom indeed in the eloquent words of Milton, when he says — " He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is are asylums, to which respectable females " when thrown out upon the world by the dissolution of their... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1867 - 724 páginas
...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1868 - 590 páginas
...is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her...a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbrcathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary." — "That virtue, therefore, which is but... | |
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