 | John Milton - 1886 - 634 էջ
...whole tribe, Th-jy had by this possess'd the towers of Gath, And lorded over them whom now they serve: But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty; And to... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 630 էջ
...whole tribe, They had by this pcssess'd the towers of Oath, An J lorded over them whom now they serve : But what more oft in nations grown corrupt) And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty; And to... | |
 | Henry Offley Wakeman - 1887 - 248 էջ
...great tionary moral fall on the part of the nation, the judgment of God upon a backsliding people. What more oft, in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty — Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty ? And... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 654 էջ
...whole tribe, They had by this possessed the towers of Gath, And lorded over them whom now they serve. But what more oft, in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty— 270 Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty —... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 406 էջ
...whole tribe, They had by this possessed the towers of Gath, And lorded over them whom now they serve. But what more oft, in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, 270 Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty, And... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1892 - 300 էջ
...the " Samson Agonistes " she was accustomed to repeat with a fullness of effect not to be forgotten: "But what more oft, in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty ? " She... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 198 էջ
...liberty go hand in hand : that a people which is corrupt ceases to care for freedom. Cf. .VA 268—170: "But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty ! " The thought is often insisted upon in his prose-... | |
 | George Eliot - 1895 - 418 էջ
...shall never forget four great lines of the " Samson Agonistes " to wlu'ch it did perfect justice, — " But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, — Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." The... | |
 | George Eliot - 1895 - 408 էջ
...never forget four great lines of the " Samson Agonistes " to which it did perfect justice, — " Bnt what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude. Than to love bondage more than liberty, — Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." The... | |
 | John Milton - 1897 - 654 էջ
...tribe, I hey had by this possessed the towers of Gath, And lorded over them whom now thev serve liut what more oft, in nations grown corrupt' And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty — 270 I Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty... | |
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But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty; And to despise, or envy, or suspect Whom GOD hath of His special favour raised As their... 
