 | 1884 - 750 էջ
...cope single-handed with the Philistines. We quote the concluding portion of this grand declamation : " Had Judah that day joined, or one whole tribe. They...by their vices brought to servitude. Than to love Londage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty ; And to despise, or envy, or suspect... | |
 | Andrew Robert Fausset - 1885 - 368 էջ
...indolent submission to liberty, even when such a hero offered himself as their deliverer under God — " Had Judah that day joined, or one whole tribe, They...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... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 366 էջ
...shall never forget four great lines of the "Samson Agonistes" to which it did perfect justice — " But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by...servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." The delighted conviction of justice in the thought — the... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 398 էջ
...shall never forget four great lines of the "Samson Agonistes" to which it did perfect justice — " But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by...servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." The delighted conviction of justice in the thought — the... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1885 - 506 էջ
...shall never forget four great lines of the " Samson Agonistes " to which it did perfect justice— " But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by...servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty,— Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." The delighted conviction of justice in the thought—the... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 512 էջ
...shall never forget four great lines of the " Samson Agonistes " to which it did perfect justice — " But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by...servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, — Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." The delighted conviction of justice in the thought —... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 502 էջ
...forget four great lines of the " Samson Agonistes " to which it did perfect justice— " But what inore oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought...servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty,— Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." The delighted conviction of justice in the thought—the... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 630 էջ
...Bad Judah that day join'd, or one whole tribe, They had by this pcssess'd the towers of Oath, An J lorded over them whom now they serve : But what more...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... | |
 | Albert Hamann - 1886 - 44 էջ
...foreign bondage. Here again the condition of England after the. Restoration is clearly referred to: ,,But what more oft, in nations grown corrupt, And...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 634 էջ
...threads Touch'd with the flame. On their whole host I flew Dnarm'd, and with a trivial weapon fell'd Their choicest youth ; they only lived who fled. Had Judah that day join'd, or one whole tribe, Th-jy had by this possess'd the towers of Gath, And lorded over them whom... | |
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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... 
