 | Ezra Stiles Ely - Calvinism - 1811 - 296 pages
...own will, and consents to be a lover of pleasure, more than of God without declaring, ' " To reign IB worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven !" I would not insinuate that all unholy beings have the same degree of wickedness : but... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...least We shall be Free r 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 Heav'n ! But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...or beggars. " O rico, o pinjada," rich, or hanged, "neck, or nothing." Milton makes Lucifer say, " To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven." But the adage seems to have a special reference to the respect usually paid to idiots.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...of the finest characteristic passages in the Paradise Lost. Satan in triumphant despair exclaims -" In my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell ; Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." Which is precisely the sentiment expressed by Stafford. A reader who is well acquainted... | |
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...at least We shall be free j 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...Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." The whole of the speeches and debates in Pandemonium are well worthy of the place and the occasion —... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 308 pages
...least We shall be free ! lh' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive as hence : Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice To reign...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...the following examples the treble emphasis, though not expressed, is evidently implied. EXAMPLES. 1. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign' in keif than servt? in heaven. 2. I would rather be thejirit' man in that village" than the teeond' in... | |
 | John Payne Collier - English poetry - 1820 - 394 pages
...Princedoms, Virtues, and that fine characteristic passage, put into the mouth of the rebellious Satan, " Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice To reign...though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven !" Now read the following passage in a prose author, who wrote while Milton was yet almost... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...at least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : say) " Thy place is here, sad sister, come away ! Once like thyself, I trembled, in Heaven. Hut where-fore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
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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. 
