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" 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 62
by John Milton - 1896 - 210 pages
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...prsesse Tartaro liquidem juvat, Cecils quam in ipsis servi obire munia. Milton I. 261. and in my chcrtcc To reign is worth ambition though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. VIII. An interpolation in Grotius, Innominata qtueque nominibui sui.i, Libet vocare propriis...
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 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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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...least We shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 360 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign...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 of our loss,...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

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 as...
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Paradise lost, a poem. With the life of the author [by E. Fenton].

John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...at least We shall he free ' th' Almighty hath not huilt Here for his envy, will not drive us hence i Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth amhition though in hell i Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n. . But wherefore let we then...
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Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 260 Here we rmiy reign fecure, and in my choice To rei^n is worth ambition though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell, than ferve in He.iv'n. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' allbciates and copartners of...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...least We shall be free ; 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...Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners of our loss, 265 Lie thus astonish'd on th' oblivious pool, And call...
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Select British Classics, Volume 14

English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...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...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 412 pages
...least We shall be free ! th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy j will 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.' Amidst those impieties which this enraged...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...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 is worth ambition, tho' in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. Amidst those impieties which this enraged...
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