 | 1836 - 558 דפים
...the Almighty hath not built Sere for his envy; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Jetter to reign in hell, than serve in Heaven ! 3ut wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th'... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 דפים
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; wilj not drive us hence : Here we may reign secùïe ; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition , though in hell : Better to reign in hell , than serve in heaven. " But wherefore let we then our faithful friends , The associates and copartners of... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 דפים
...the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. ßut wherefore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1838 - 216 דפים
...— till at last it lift its head into the clouds and strike the firmament, and end with the Satanic choice— " To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven !" And this it is, then, that we are called on to renounce and to resist, in the very... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1838 - 404 דפים
...est; etsi in Tartaro, Alto pricesse juvat, • Cotlis quam in ipsis, servire."—CROTIUJ. And in tnv choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."—MILTOH. Satan's address to Eve in Paradise Lost. " Sovereign of creatures, universal... | |
 | 1841 - 640 דפים
...the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven !" ' " I might multiply passages of the same kind ; but I dare only allude to the proposition... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 דפים
...Almighty hath not built " Here for his envy ; — will not drive us hence : " Here we may reign secure ; and, in my choice, " To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : " Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. " But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, " The associates and copartners... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 דפים
...; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, serve in Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends. The associates and copartners of our... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 40 דפים
...if I be still the same, And what I should be; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? In my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." PAB. LosT, B. i. The history of the world, as now recorded, has been a history of... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 דפים
...Paradise Lost ; ' this was indeed grand ; and when he pronounced the following very difficult lines — ' and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven' — * Since removed to Bruce Castle, Tottenham, Middlesex. vol.. ix. 2 s the idea... | |
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Here we may reign secure ; and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. 
