...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 heal? — Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it, and might well...

...of the good," &c. What a contrast to the fused warmth which Milton infuses into the same subject. " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race when that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. That virtue, which is but a...

...cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathcd, that never seeks out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that...garland is to be run for not without dust and heat." Elsewhere he says grandly, and in tho highest spirit of freedom, " Though all the winds of doctrine...

...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.—Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing it, and might well...

...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...

...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 withoat dust and heat. — Areop. He had taken the words out of the Roman's mouth, without knowing...

...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...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...

...sober men. Some of Milton's contemporaries entertained a similar ambition. They were content to cherish a " fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat," — with what result we know. But at least, if we are to inaugurate a policy of repression, let us...

...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...

...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 way-faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,...