 | Phrenology - 1884 - 750 pages
...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 Londage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty ; And to... | |
 | George Eliot - Novelists, English - 1885 - 512 pages
...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 their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, — Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." The... | |
 | George Eliot - Novelists, English - 1885 - 398 pages
...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 their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." The delighted... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1885 - 506 pages
...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 their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty,— Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." The... | |
 | Andrew Robert Fausset - Bible - 1885 - 368 pages
...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, Bondage with ease, than strenuous liberty : And... | |
 | George Eliot - Novelists, English - 1885 - 366 pages
...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 their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty." The delighted... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 630 pages
...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... | |
 | Albert Hamann - 1886 - 44 pages
...foreign bondage. Here again the condition of England after the. Restoration is clearly referred to: ,,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 - 634 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Offley Wakeman - Church and state - 1887 - 248 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
