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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. "
Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ... - Page 271
edited by - 1880
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without duft and heat. Affuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmoft that vice promifes to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...cloistered virtue was not to be praised, a virtue unexerciscd and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." These are some of his arguments against placed the press under the contrail of a state inquisitor,...
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Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical ...

Francis Maseres - 1809 - 638 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run-for, not without dud and heat. Affuredly we bring not innocence into the world; we bring impurity...That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the comtemplatiou of evil, and knows not the uimoll that vice proraifes to her followers, and rejefts it,...
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Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical ...

Francis Maseres - 1809 - 636 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run-for, not without duft and heat. Afluredly we bring not innocence into the world ; we bring impurity...is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a young* ling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the ulmoft that vice promifes to her followers,...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...cloistered virtue was not to ffe praised, a virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race...garland is to be run for not without dust and heat." These are some of his arguments against those, who affected to consider the restraint of the press...
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Scraps

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 482 pages
...cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race,...immortal garland is to be run for— not without dust and beat." a single syllable on the Royal Prerogative, till the King had been proclaimed an enemy by the...
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...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,...immortal! garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat1. Assuredly 1 He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her baits •nd seeming pleasures,...
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The View

Chandos Leigh - 1819 - 82 pages
...a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreatlied, that never sallies out and sees its adversary; but slinks out of the race, where that...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." — MILTON'S Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing. (6) " What are its natives now but imps...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 19

Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pages
...cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." It is scarcely credible how any Christian, bearing in mind the spirit which elevated our blessed Saviour...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 32

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pages
...cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' It is evident that he is here writing for the few exalted natures like his own, without any consideration...
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