 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; wilj not drive us hence : Here we may reign secùïe ; 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 , The associates and copartners of our... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...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. ßut wherefore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : aoo 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. 240 recovered strength] Revigorate, resumed, recovering, reviving self-raised, self-recovered.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends. The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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. " 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;... | |
 | British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...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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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. 
