| James Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 pages
...settle where I will, in book 1 of The Prelude with Milton's Satan: Here at 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 choyce To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve... | |
| James Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 pages
...where I will, in book 1 of The Prelude with Milton's Satan: Here at 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 choyce To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve... | |
| Liz Greene - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1984 - 384 pages
...becomes a genuine one, and dignifies the nobility of the human spirit. SCORPIO 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. Milton, Paradise Lost We have met in preceding chapters the... | |
| Edward W. Said - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 442 pages
...I will,37 in Book 1 of The Prelude with Milton's Satan: Here at 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 choyce To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve... | |
| Bruce Zuckerman - Bible - 1998 - 310 pages
...famous cry of Satan in the Hell of Milton's Paradise Lost: Here at 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 though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than... | |
| John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...entire discourse stands in massive opposition to the third element of Kierkegaard's triad, necessity: 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... | |
| Alice K. Turner - Devil in art - 1993 - 324 pages
...what I should be, all but less than he Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at last 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 though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve... | |
| André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...be, all but less then he Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at 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 choyce To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve... | |
| Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here 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 is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve... | |
| Bruce Zuckerman - Religion - 1998 - 310 pages
...one of the famous cry of Satan in the Hell of Milton's Paradise Lost: Here at 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 though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than... | |
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