| John Milton - 1873 - 130 páginas
...forbeare, without the knowledge of Evill? He that can apprehend and consider Vice with all her taits and seeming, pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring ' Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered Vertue, unexercised and unbreath'd,... | |
| David Masson - 1873 - 754 páginas
...to virtue and strength consists in full walking amid both, distinguishing, avoiding, and choosing. " I cannot praise a " fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unexercised and unbreathed, " that never sallies out to see her adversary, but slinks out of " the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not"... | |
| William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 páginas
...Indeed, 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...prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
| Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 páginas
...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... | |
| Jeremy Jennings, A. Kemp-Welch - 1997 - 314 páginas
...passing the platitudes is any substitute for seeking a better world. Milton wrote in Areopagitica, '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... | |
| Brian McCrea - 1998 - 260 páginas
...(9:286-87). In a magnificent redaction of Milton's famous defense of a free press in Areopagitica—"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary" (728)—Eve asks Adam, "And what is Faith, Love, Virtue unassay'd / Alone, without exterior help sustain'd?"... | |
| Robert Trager, Donna L. Dickerson - 1999 - 242 páginas
...vibrant debate, acuteness of perception, ingenuity, and self-discipline are the keys to finding truth: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary" (Milton, 1644/1971, p. 20). Spinoza's ultimate goal for mankind was well-being, that enduring joy that... | |
| Chaim Stern - 2000 - 388 páginas
...matters is not the number of commandments we obey, but how, and in what spirit, we obey them. John Milton 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... | |
| Brian Stewart Hook, Russell R. Reno - 2000 - 268 páginas
...However, unlike Spenser, Milton applies this language to the single temperate moment of obedience.10 "He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures," writes Milton, "and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he... | |
| Richard Moon - 2000 - 330 páginas
...of the reasoned judgment of men and women. Milton could not see the value of truth if it is simply, '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... | |
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