...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...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...

...praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue," he wrote in a celebrated passage, "unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where the immortal garland is to be won, not without dust and heat." What purifies individuals "is triall,...

...original impurity that John Milton posited as a human certainty when he protested in Areopagitica that "Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather."14 Like the eating of the apple of knowledge in Genesis or of the "little book" in Revelation,...

...and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue,...the world. we bring impurity much rather: that which puriftes us is trial, and trial is by that which is contrary. John Milton, Complete Poems and Major...

...holding a book in my nervously-shaking hands. My voice quavered a little too as I read out, "I can not praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." I looked up to see that Miss Quill was smiling at me, and then I noticed that Charlie Schmidt, who...

...the persistence and hopeful purification of original sin through a related principle of contrariety: 'Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world,...bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary' (my emphasis) (2:515). Though very closely aligned, Milton's...

...Areopagitica [CPW 2.5 15], "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd & unbreath'd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." [V] ^Areopagitica [CPW 2.527], in the...

...trained aesthetic conscience its opportunity and its appropriate task. In a famous passage Milton says: 'I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue...unexercised and 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...

...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,...unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary." Of course Milton is here referring to men and women, but his remarks are suggestive...

...and Sees Her Adversary The chapter title is a play on Milton's assertion from Areopagitica that he "cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised...garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat" (728). 1. For a helpful introduction to the idea of ethos as positionality or location, see Nedra Reynolds's...