 What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? here at least We shall be free ; th...  The Spectator - Page 251publié par - 1810Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be free ; the heard a hollow sound. " Come, sister, come !" (it...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,... | |
 | John Payne Collier - 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 Milton - 1821 - 226 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...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,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 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...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,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 354 pages
...mind not to be chang'd by place or time. And afterwards : • Here at least We shall be free ! Hi' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not...impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places x>f the poem, the author has taken care to introduce none that is not big with absurdity, and incapable... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...hell, Receive thy new possessor, one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. i. 250. And afterwards : — Here at least We shall be free...though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. i. 258r Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places of the poem,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater ? Here at leaat We shall @ / But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners of our loss, Lie thus... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...have deeply ventured ; But all must do so who would greatly win. Byron's Doge of Venice, a. 2, s. 1. Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign...Hell : Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 1. His trust was with th' Eternal to be deem'd Equal in strength, and rather... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...least We shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 960 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, Th' associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...Tartaro: Alto preesse Tartaro siquidem juvat, Caelis quam in ipsis servi obire munia. Milton, i. 261. and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. VIII. An interpolation in Grotius, Imioium.it,'! quaeque nominibus suis, Libet vocare propriis... | |
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