| 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... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...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 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, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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 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 of our... | |
| abbé Barruel - France - 1798 - 1128 pages
...feen the prince of the fallen angels exclaiming in his pride, Here at leaft We fliall be free ;— Here we may reign fecure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, tho' in hell : Better to reign in hell, than fer-vc in heaven. It is not to one of Weifhaupt's adepts... | |
| abbé Barruel - France - 1798 - 460 pages
...feen the prince of the fallen angels exclaiming in hjs pride, -i Here at lead We (hall be free; — Here we may reign fecure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, tho1 in hell : Better to reign in hell, thanyJrw in heaven. It is not to one of Weifhaupt's adepts... | |
| abbé Barruel - France - 1799 - 288 pages
...we not feen the prince of the fallen angels exclaiming in his pride, at leaft We fhall be free 5— Here we may reign fecure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, tho' in hell : Better to reign in hell, than feme in heaven. It is not to one of Weifhaupt's adepts... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 our lofs,... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...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 is worth ambition 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... | |
| 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,... | |
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