 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.  Paradise Lost - Page 62by John Milton - 1896 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...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. ßut wherefore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...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 is worth ambition , though in bell : Better to reign in hell , than serve in heaven. " But wherefore let we then our faithful friends... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign ie 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... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - Commonplace-books - 1838 - 404 pages
...est; etsi in Tartaro, Alto pricesse juvat, • Cotlis quam in ipsis, servire."—CROTIUJ. And in tnv choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."—MILTOH. Satan's address to Eve in Paradise Lost. " Sovereign of creatures, universal... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1838 - 216 pages
...— till at last it lift its head into the clouds and strike the firmament, and end with the Satanic choice— " To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven !" And this it is, then, that we are called on to renounce and to resist, in the very first... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 518 pages
...shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 260 Her£ we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is...though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. 9-io recover'd strength] Revigorate, resumed, recovering, reviving self-raised, self-recovered.... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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...friends, The associates and copartners of our loss, Lie thus astonish'd on the oblivious pool, And call them not to share with us their part In this unhappy... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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...friends, " The associates and copartners of our loss, ' ' Lie thus astonish'd on the oblivious pool, " And call them not to share with us their part " In... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...at least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Lie thus astonish'd on the oblivious pool, And call them not to share with us their part In this unhappy... | |
 | British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...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... | |
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