| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 páginas
...at least We shall be free ; 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...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 - 1801 - 396 páginas
...I 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...though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
| 1803 - 372 páginas
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, 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 in heav'n. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places of the poem, the author has... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 páginas
...not drive us hence : Here we may reign 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 friends, Th'associates and copartners of our loss, Lie thus astonish'd on th'oblivious pool, And call them not... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 páginas
...I should be. all but less than he Whom thunder had made greater ? Here at least We shall be free ; th.' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy —...260 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reiljn is worth ambition though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n. But wherefore... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 302 páginas
...least i We shall be free! th' Almighty hath not bnilt Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice To reign...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... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 518 páginas
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 26» Here we may reign fecure, and, in my choice* To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell, than ferve in Heaven ! Ver. 252. Receive t/iy new pqffeffbur !] This paflagc feems to be an improvement... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 306 páginas
...least We shall be free ! th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign...: 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... | |
| 1810 - 482 páginas
...at least We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not buitl Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign...though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 páginas
...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... | |
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