 | Thomas N. Corns - 2003 - 548 pages
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 | Jennifer Andersen, Elizabeth Sauer - 2002 - 320 pages
...wrongdoing. Milton instead continued to defend his position with indignation based on his personal beliefs: "that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary" (CPW2:$1$). This is where Milton was a radical: in the ideas about reading and licensing which he had... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 2001 - 176 pages
...poem. As in Areopagitica where Milton accepts the nonexistence of innocence for humankind ("Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather," 12) and where recovery is prepared for by trial ("that which purifies us is triall, and triall is by... | |
 | David Gay - 2002 - 232 pages
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 | Slavko Splichal - 2002 - 254 pages
...and continually tested in trials, where contrary experiences and opinions are confronted. "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." Books are most appropriate means "to the trial of virtue... | |
 | Jay Parini - 2002 - 600 pages
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 | F. Regina Psaki, Charles Hindley - 2001 - 394 pages
...unassayeoV Alone, without exterior help sustained?" (DC, 335—336) In Areopagitica Milton says that "we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather." But "which purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary." "Blank vertue" is not a pure... | |
 | Joad Raymond - 2003 - 432 pages
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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... 
