 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
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Letter to reign in bell than serve in heaven : But in this : To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in bell than serve in heaven. An emphasis of exactly the same kind is found in a saying of Julius Caesar,... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely - 1811 - 302 pages
...performing his own will, and consents to be a lover of pleasure, more than of God without declaring, . ' " To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven !'* I would not insinuate that all unholy beings have the same degree of wickedness : but... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely - 1811 - 296 pages
...own will, and consents to be a lover of pleasure, more than of God without declaring, ' " To reign IB worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven !" I would not insinuate that all unholy beings have the same degree of wickedness : but... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...should he, all but less than lie Whom thunder hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be Free r 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... | |
 | 1814 - 568 pages
...or beggars. " O rico, o pinjada," rich, or hanged, "neck, or nothing." Milton makes Lucifer say, " To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven." But the adage seems to have a special reference to the respect usually paid to idiots.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...of the finest characteristic passages in the Paradise Lost. Satan in triumphant despair exclaims -" In my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell ; Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." Which is precisely the sentiment expressed by Stafford. A reader who is well acquainted... | |
 | 1816 - 782 pages
...follow'rs ; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day. •Shaktfp. 1 :Th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence. Stilt. A fullen prudence drew thee hence From noife, fraud, and impertinence. Rrfcomm. •i. Away ;... | |
 | 1852 - 798 pages
...if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he WThom 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. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 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...though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." The whole of the speeches and debates in Pandemonium are well worthy of the place and the... | |
 | 1819 - 308 pages
...Here at least We shall be free ! lh' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive as hence : Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice...hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places of the poem, the author has... | |
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