 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
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...the following examples the treble emphasis, though not expressed, is evidently implied. EXAMPLES. 1. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign' in keif than servt? in heaven. 2. I would rather be thejirit' man in that village" than the teeond' in... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...if I he still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater ? ing lamp around, From yonder shrine I heard a hollow...sister, come away ! Once like thyself, I trembled, in Heaven. Hut where-fore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | John Payne Collier - 1820 - 394 pages
...Princedoms, Virtues, and that fine characteristic passage, put into the mouth of the rebellious Satan, " Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice To reign...though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven !" Now read the following passage in a prose author, who wrote while Milton was yet almost... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 pages
...least We shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built Here for bid eusy ; will not drive us hence : 260 Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Belter to reign iu Hell than serve in Heaven ! Hut wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th'... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 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 ! But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...should be, all but less than he Wbom 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: fl6O Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice To reign is worth amhition, though in Hell : Better... | |
 | 1822 - 788 pages
...time.* And afterwards : ' Here at teait We shall be free 1 th' Almighty hath not built Here for hb ter % cboiee To reign is worth ambition, tho* in hell : Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.' Amidst... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 354 pages
...mind not to be chang'd by place or time. And afterwards : • Here at least We shall be free ! Hi' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not...hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places x>f the poem, the author has... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...not to be changed by place or time. i. 250. And afterwards : — 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. i. 258r Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places of the poem,... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 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...reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth amhition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven ! But wherefore let we then... | |
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