...Milton emphasizes the connection between free speech and good character. "I cannot praise," he says, "a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary. . . ."8 Responding to his own adversaries who were asserting the need for more...

...systems. The great English Puritan John Milton, in his famous essayAereopagitica correctly decried " a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed. that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race ..." I am puzzled by a number of Professor Donald Wiebe's...

...Indeed, what John Milton said of the knights of The Faerie Queene could be said of Prudentius's heroes: "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue...immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."17 Immediately behind Faith follows Modesty, who is met on the field of battle by Lust. Modesty,...

...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...bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity and much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. Patterson is a...

...appears a desirable retreat from the conflicts of politics and love. But see Milton, Areopagitica (1644): '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...

...the promises of the good life that Patterson was now so bent on peddling. As Milton famously wrote: I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, hut slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without...

...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 run for not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...

...the power of choice that only the acceptance of evil can posit."124 Like John Milton, MT criticized "cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary."125 He believed that temptations — like those that tested Jesus — strengthened character,...

...trained aesthetic conscience its opportunity and its appropriate task. In a famous passage Milton says: 'I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue...unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary.' ... This was written, or course, in terms of a moral issue. If we apply it to the world of art - the...

...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary." Of course Milton is here referring to men and women, but his remarks are suggestive in discussing the...