 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.  Notes and Queries - Page 3041851Full view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...if I be still the same ? And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater. Here at least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath...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, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 360 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better... | |
 | John Walker - 1799 - 438 pages
...the common arrangement of emphatic inflexion, though contrary to the ftrongert fenfe of the paflage : To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell, than/irrw in heaven. Moft readers, I fay, in repeating thefe lines, will pronounce the laft line as... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...at least We shall he free ' th' Almighty hath not huilt Here for his envy, will not drive us hence i Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth amhition though in hell i Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n. . But wherefore let we then... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pages
...all but let thr.n he Whom thunder huth made j.rcaterf Here at laaft We fhall be free ; th' Almight)- hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 260 Here we rmiy reign fecure, and in my choice To rei^n is worth ambition though in Hell : Better... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 260 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell : Better... | |
 | 1803 - 372 pages
...possessor, one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. And afterwards, , Here at last We shall be free ; the Almighty hath not built Here...will not drive us hence ; Here we may reign secure ; *nd in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. And afterwards, > Here at least We shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built :Here for his envy ; will...secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, tho' in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. Amidst those impieties which this enraged... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - 1805 - 364 pages
...might' " Extort from me, to bow and fue for grace •• Wi.h fuppliant knee, and deify his pow't. "To reign is worth ambition though in hell ; " Better to reign in hdl'than ferve in Heav'n. . M Which way Ifly is hell ;; myfelf am hell ; . " And in the loweft deep... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...be , all but less than he "Whom thunder has made greater ? Here , at least, "We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not...secure ; and , in my choice, To reign is worth ambition tho' in hell : Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. , But wherefore let we then our faithful... | |
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