In attacking the cloistered monks and nuns of my Roman Catholic Church, the brilliant, if occasionally logorrheic, John Milton wrote in his defense of free speech, "Areopagitica," that "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed." ❋ Maurice O'Sullivan (2009)
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. ❋ Unknown (2007)
"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." ❋ Michael Caddell (2006)
And in the first months she had found this in Australia, in the silent, silvery – blue days, and the unbreathed air, and strange, remote forms of tree and creature. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The sky was pure, crystal pure and blue, of a lovely pale blue colour: the air was wonderful, new and unbreathed: and there were great distances. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It was a dead place, not but stone and dust and air long unbreathed. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (2000)
She would take it back into the keeping of her heart, and if a day should ever come when he would be free to return, and demand it of her, he would find it there, unwithered, with all the unbreathed perfume hoarded in its folded leaves. ❋ Various (N/A)
But the vengeance that darken'd their brow was unbreathed; ❋ Various (N/A)
Such an unexpected echo of her own unbreathed words startled Althea like an electric shock. ❋ Minnie Mary Lee (N/A)
There is every possible degree of anguish in the married life, from the unbreathed unrest of the thinly clouded soul to the terrible grief that breaks out in loud denunciations and open and disgusting conflict. ❋ George Sumner Weaver (N/A)
The air was clear beyond belief, unbreathed, one would have said, newly poured out from the blue chalice of the sky. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1945)
They brought her a wideness of vision strange to this later age; she admitted them to secret imaginings of her own, unbreathed even to dream. ❋ Unknown (1920)
QUOTATION: 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. ❋ Unknown (1919)
Never before had either smelled that perfume, strong and keen and clean, which comes straight from the unbreathed air of the ocean to bathe New York, to put life and hope and health into its people. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Mr Kipling's heroes are frail enough to feel some of this very natural indignation when unbreathed politicians lecture them in the heat of their Indian day. ❋ Palmer, John (1915)
I can not 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. ❋ Unknown (1909)
There are subtle, unbreathed temptations which all men and all women, when tortured by jealousy, not only understand but divine before they are actually in being. ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)
[I love] unbreathing at [school] ❋ Shippo (2004)
“[Oh shit] [she is] [unbreathe]” ❋ Kade Gallagher (2021)
