 | 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, Hiram Corson - 1899 - 354 pages
...Milton may be said virtually to speak, as he *J does throughout the drama, in propria persond) : ' 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... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1899 - 346 pages
...here Milton may be said virtually to speak, as he does throughout the drama, in propria persona) : ' 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... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1901 - 416 pages
...tribe, 265 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1918 - 188 pages
...liberty go hand in hand : that a people which is corrupt censes to care for freedom. Cf. SA 268-270: "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-works.... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Tout, James Tait - History - 1902 - 624 pages
...PW i. 258. " Sonnet 22. » Ready and Easy Way, PW ii. 138. In sad old age his bitter complaint is, 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 ? "... | |
 | John Milton - 1903 - 446 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 - 1903 - 434 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... | |
 | George Eliot - 1908 - 386 pages
...never forget four great lines of the "Samson Agonistes" to which it did perfect justice — [ 311 ] "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... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1910 - 832 pages
...liberty go hand in hand: that a people which is corrupt ceases to care for freedom. Cf. SA 268—70: " 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-works.... | |
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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... 
