 | Lane Cooper - 1907 - 496 páginas
...I chose without previous analysis, simply as engaging passages that had long reechoed in my ear. " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." * Down to " virtue," the current s and R are both announced and repeated unobtrusively, and by way... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1907 - 302 páginas
...I chose without previous analysis, simply as engaging passages that had long re-echoed in my ear. " I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."1 Down to "virtue," the current S and R are both announced and repeated unobtrusively, and by... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1909 - 254 páginas
...publication for his works ; the writer of ' Areopagitica ' was of a different mould from this ! He says : "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.5' The answer to the problem lies in the personal experiences of the author, and above all, in... | |
 | Daniel Tuvill - 1978 - 266 páginas
...41] That virtue is but tveal^ . . . whatsoever: Compare Milton's famous declaration in Areopagitica: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." Quoted here from Selected Essays by John Milton, ed. Laura E. Lockwood (Boston, 1911), p. 70. Pelopidas,... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1850 - 510 páginas
...with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy. — Hooker. ACTIVE VIRTUE. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. — Milton. ON SEEING THE MOONBEAMS TREMBLING IN THE WATER. See here the fabling poet's dream, Diana... | |
 | Thomas F. Merrill - 1976 - 206 páginas
...(IX, 335-36) our humanistic sensibilities respond. We think of the rolling phrases from Areopagitica: I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...race where that immortal garland is to be run for . . . 18. Areopagitica, The Student's Milton, ed. Frank Allen Patterson, rev. ed. (New York, 1933),... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 páginas
...ordain wisely as in this world of evil, in the midst whereof God hath placed us unavoidably." Or again: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." There is a note of patriotism, too, in the pamphlet, and of expectation of great things to happen shortly... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1980 - 486 páginas
...necessarily the strongest form of patriotism. One thinks, here, of Milton's words (from the Areopagitica) : "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." Question. Franklin Roosevelt seemed to 'have very little use for the Foreign Service. American diplomats... | |
 | R. Wilcher - 1985 - 214 páginas
...attitude can best be summed up in the well-known words of Marvell's friend and colleague, John Milton: 'I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat' (Areopagitica ( 1 644)). Christian life is a perpetual warfare against the temptations of the world,... | |
 | Donald Alexander Downs - 1989 - 306 páginas
...to Downs, Nazis in Skokie. 14. See, eg, John Milton's classic defense of free press in Areopagitica: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." In The Portable Milton, ed. Douglas Bush (Penguin Books, 1976), p. 167. 15. Meiklejohn, Political Freedom;... | |
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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. 
