 | William James Dawson - English literature - 1892 - 300 pages
...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 - Bible - 1892 - 198 pages
...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-... | |
 | John Milton - English Literature - 1892 - 654 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— 270 Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty —... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 406 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, 270 Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty, And... | |
 | George Eliot - English literature - 1895 - 418 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 232 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 to... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1898 - 258 pages
...references to his own career and the English nation's sorrows. Here is Milton's view of the Restoration — But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to seriitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty. Bondage with ease than strenuous l1berty.1 A little... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 234 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, 138 DALILA 1. Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty,... | |
| |
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... 
