 | 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... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...if I be still the same ? And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater. Here at least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath...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
...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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 loss,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - 1805 - 364 pages
...might' " Extort from me, to bow and fue for grace •• Wi.h fuppliant knee, and deify his pow't. "To reign is worth ambition though in hell ; " Better to reign in hdl'than ferve in Heav'n. . M Which way Ifly is hell ;; myfelf am hell ; . " And in the loweft deep... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...for his envy — will not drive us hence : 260 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reiljn 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 loss,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. And afterwards : Here at least We shall be free ! th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not...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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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. 
