| John Milton - 1750 - 666 pages
...not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 260 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. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' aflbciates and copartners... | |
| John Milton - 1763 - 670 pages
...not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 260 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. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' afTociates and copartners... | |
| John Milton - 1767 - 448 pages
...not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 260 Here we may reign fecure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than ferva in heaven. But wherefore let we then otir faithful friends, Til' aflbciates and copartners... | |
| English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : after 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 Heav'n. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th* aflbciates and copartners... | |
| Charles Moore - Dueling - 1790 - 472 pages
...occafion. The fpeech of Satan in Milton is exactly oppofite in every point. • » " In my choice " To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: " Better to reign in Hell than ferve in Heaven!" The Greek tragedians very frequently introduce the idea of fuicide, as... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 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 Hcav'n. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th* alTociates and copartners... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 560 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in HelJ, than serve in Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...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... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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 to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners... | |
| John Walker - Elocution - 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... | |
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