 | Melvin Jonah Lasky - 752 pages
...mortal gift. As that other great English humanist, Platonist, and Calvinist, Milton, wrote, "Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary." [Walter R. Davis, A Map of Arcadia: Sidney's Romance in Its... | |
 | David Masson - 2004 - 588 pages
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 | George Anastaplo - 2004 - 524 pages
...out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for. not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into 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... | |
 | Samuel P. Nelson - 2005 - 248 pages
...between ideas.'7 He also employs military images in describing this competitive process: "Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...us is Triall, and Triall is by what is contrary." He later describes these trials as "Wars of Truth."'8 Truth must be tested or else we can have no real... | |
 | David Ainsworth - 2005 - 324 pages
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 | John Durham Peters - 2010 - 318 pages
...The citing of Milton's intolerance attests to the failure to have learned what he taught: "Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary" (728). PROVOKING OBJECTS Milton was never a happy liberal... | |
 | Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser - 2005 - 390 pages
...slinks out of the race, where the immortall garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.... [T]hat which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary... [T]rue temperance [is that which can] see and know, and yet abstain" (1644/1959 (2):514-516). References... | |
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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. Assuredly we bring not innocence... 
