 | Victoria Silver - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 432 pages
...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 hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. (LM 1.242-63) The noble temper of this speech is deceptive, if only because the stoicism... | |
 | Quotations - 2001 - 838 pages
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 | Raymond Chang, Margaret Scrogin Chang - Chinese language - 2001 - 212 pages
...bit wei niu hou Translation: Better be a cock's beak than a bull's rump. Milton said it another way: "To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" (Paradise Lost, Book I, 262-63). Proverb tin zhu zhe chi tin mo zhe hsi (close) (ver-... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 2001 - 598 pages
...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 hell: Berrer to reign in hell than serve in heaven. When Eve yields to Satan's remprations and bires the... | |
 | Brian Richardson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 416 pages
...hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n1 In due course each poem develops correctives to such unrestrained sentiments. Wordsworth's... | |
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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. 
