 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...boasting 1 could subdue The Omnipotent. Ay me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boast »o rain ; ven is in these lips, And all is d advanced, The lower still I fall ; only supreme In misery : such joy ambition finds. But say I could... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...and other vaunts Than to submit, boasting I could subdue The Omnipotent. Aye me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what...on the throne of Hell, With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery : such joy ambition finds ! But say I could... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...other vaunts Than to submit : — boasting I could subdue The Omnipotent. Ah me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain ; — Under...they adore me on the throne of hell ! With diadem and sceptre1 high advanc'd, The lower still I fall ; only supreme In misery : such joy Ambition finds.... | |
 | Elizabeth Ely Fuller - Fall of man in literature - 1983 - 332 pages
...separate from the subject. As Satan says in his soliloquy on Mt. Niphates: ... Ay me, they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what torments inwardly 1 groan; While they adore me on the throne of hell. With diadem and scepter high advanced. The lower... | |
 | Jeffrey Burton Russell - History - 1992 - 308 pages
...lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n. . . . While they adore me on the Throne of Hell, With Diadem...and Sceptre high advanc'd The lower still I fall. Though at first "his form had yet not lost/ All her original brightness, nor appear'd/Less than Arch... | |
 | John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...promises and other vaunts Than to submit, boasting I could subdue Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan (4.83-88) Inclosing reserve isolates the demonic from his fellows, despite his posture as a comradely... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...and other vaunts Than to submit, boasting I could subdue 85 Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what...Throne of Hell, With Diadem and Sceptre high advanc'd yo The lower still I fall, only Supreme In misery; such joy Ambition finds. But say I could repent... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...and other vaunts Than to submit, boasting I could subdue 85 Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what...Throne of Hell, With Diadem and Sceptre high advanc'd 90 The lower still I fall, only Supreme In misery; such joy Ambition finds. But say I could repent... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...omnipotent. Ay me, they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain,0 Under what torments inwardly 1 groan: While they adore me on the throne of hell, With diadem and sceptre high advanced 90 The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds. But say I could... | |
 | Anna K. Nardo - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 292 pages
...blaming God's tyranny for their ruin, admits his isolation from the followers who "little know . . . Under what torments inwardly I groan: / While they adore me on the Throne of Hell" (PL 4.86-89). Although "rackt with deep despair" (PL 1.126), he can never repent because of his "dread... | |
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Ay me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain. Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery : such joy ambition... 
