 | University of Cambridge - 1998 - 334 str.
...lack of discipline and morale, both before and after falling into servitude to foreign oppressors: But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by...servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. (Samson Agonistes, lines 269-72) The part of the Book of... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909
...lines of the "Samson Agonistes" to which it did perfect justice — PERSISTENCY IN APPLICATION [WITLET "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 —... | |
 | Karin Friedrich - 2000 - 280 str.
...Ducal Prussian estates with Hohenzollern central power a century earlier; it was, in Milton's words: 'what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by their...servitude. Than to love Bondage more than Liberty, Bondage with an ease than strenuous Liberty."6 It is no coincidence that this was the exact opposite... | |
 | Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities Quentin Skinner - 2002 - 478 str.
...the enslaved Samson meditates on Judah's failure to take part in a fight for deliverance: Hadjudah that day joined, or one whole tribe. They had by this...servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty . . . g8 Despite the Biblical setting, it is hard not to feel... | |
 | Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities Quentin Skinner - 2002 - 478 str.
...moment when the enslaved Samson meditates on Judah's failure o take part in a fight for deliverance: Had Judah that day joined, or one whole tribe, They had by this possessed the towers of Oath, And lorded over them whom now they serve; But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 966 str.
...threads Touched with the flame: on their whole host I flew Unarmed, and with a trivial weapon felled0 Their choicest youth; they only lived who fled. Had...whole tribe, They had by this possessed the towers of Gath,0 And lorded over them whom now they serve; But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 124 str.
...they only liv'd who fled. Had Judah that day join'd, or one whole Tribe, They had by this possess'd the Towers of Gath, And lorded over them whom now...But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Then to love Bondage more then Liberty, Bondage with case then strenuous... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 136 str.
...they only liv'd who fled. Had Judah that day join'd, or one whole Tribe, They had by this possess'd the Towers of Gath, And lorded over them whom now...But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Then to love Bondage more then Liberty, Bondage with case then strenuous... | |
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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... 
