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 f heat. The Oxford Book of English Prose - Page 224by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1092 pagesFull view - About this book
| Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...— Virtue Confined in a I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue nnexercised and tmbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but...be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we Inng not innocence into the world ; we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is trial,... | |
| Albert Wachtel - 1992 - 192 pages
...fugitive and cloistered virtue," Milton wrote, "unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and see her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."3 But Stephen is guided by men who would geld the world to insure its purity, and, vainly hoping... | |
| North American Serials Interest Group - 1993 - 350 pages
...than by the self-governance of authors in vigorous argument with each other. Thus, with John Milton, "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat" (Areopagitica). The real questions of this crisis in scholarly publishing concern the forum that we... | |
| George Frost Kennan - 1994 - 276 pages
...It will be not developed, in short, without trial and discipline. "I cannot praise," wrote Milton, "a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."2 The public of a great country that lets a large portion of its leisure time be wasted by steady... | |
| Karen Lawrence - 1994 - 296 pages
...venture into the world that records both the profits and losses, pleasures and pains of such movement. "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat" (Milton, 247-48): these are Milton's words in "Areopagitica," not Wollstonecraft's, yet her precursor... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...love virtue unassayed Alone' - using the same argument Milton had advanced in Areopagitica, that he 'cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary'. Left to cope with the temptation alone, however, she decides Qike any adolescent rejecting authority)... | |
| Thomas William Körner - 1996 - 548 pages
...and Baron Blackett of Chelsea, holder of the Order of Merit:}: and President of the Royal Society. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...garland is to be run for not without dust and heat. To which Blackett might have added Milton's injunction to remember that Ease and leisure is given thee... | |
| Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 pages
...feeble reading when it is set alongside Milton's resolve to immerse himself in the destructive element: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary." 81 Few would assent to Newman's absurd judgment on the Revolution in France, but even if one tried... | |
| Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham - 1997 - 304 pages
...interrogative views of Milton and his work, these essays offer an "arena of conflict" for future studies. "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where the immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." So wrote Milton in Areopagitica,... | |
| Jeremy Jennings, A. Kemp-Welch - 1997 - 314 pages
...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...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.' That is the intellectual's authentic voice. The other alternative, then, is to sally out in search... | |
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