| 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
...if I be still the same And what I should be, all but less than he, Whom thunder hath made greater t Here at least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath...though in hell : Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...if I be still the same And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater Î m # in Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends. The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
| British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...if I be still the same? And what t 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 - 1841 - 492 pages
...be, — all but less than He " Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least " We shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built " Here for his envy ; —...though in hell : " Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. " But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, " The associates and copartners of our... | |
| Albert Barnes - Honor - 1841 - 40 pages
...if I be still the same, And what I should be; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? In my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." PAB. LosT, B. i. The history of the world, as now recorded, has been a history of wars;... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...or time, And afterwards: -Here at least We shall be (tee '. th' Almighty hath not built Here for bis which we have now under our consideration, hath no other bell, than serve in heav'n. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...Paradise Lost ; ' this was indeed grand ; and when he pronounced the following very difficult lines — ' and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven' — * Since removed to Bruce Castle, Tottenham, Middlesex. vol.. ix. 2 s the idea of the... | |
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