 | John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...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 in Heav'n. (1.256-64) This is the utterance of one who would make a choice out of a necessity. The rivalry with... | |
 | David Quint - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 448 pages
...raignes" (1.20), rings changes on the proverbial Caesarian sentiment that Milton's Satan will echo: "To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: / Better to reign in Hell, than serve in heaven" (1.262-63).21 Fletcher's Book 1 ends with a simile that belittles his devils by comparing... | |
 | Alice K. Turner - Devil in art - 1993 - 324 pages
...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 in Heav'n! With truly Puritan zeal, the demons set to work on the side of a volcano to build a splendiferous palace,... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 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, then serve in Heav'n. (249-63) It is possible that Satan sees the irony in the word "secure" in line... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...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. When Eve yields to Satan's temptations and bites the forbidden fruit, the effect is of loss,... | |
 | Bruce Zuckerman - Religion - 1998 - 310 pages
...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 in Heav'n. 391 While Job, like Milton's Satan, has no particular love for the netherworld per se, he is more than... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. 7558 Paradise Lost m has justice enough to accuse. 4149 The Deserted Village Sweet Aubum, lovelie in heaven. 7559 Paradise Lost First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and... | |
 | Amélie Rorty - Good and evil - 2001 - 376 pages
...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 in Heav'n. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners of our loss Lie thus... | |
 | Richard Bradford - Electronic books - 2001 - 236 pages
...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. (I: 254-63) While not altering the substance of Genesis, Milton's style would remind contemporary... | |
 | Raymond Chang, Margaret Scrogin Chang - Foreign Language Study - 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- (person)... | |
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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. 
