 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 Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...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' Almighty hath...reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reigu in Hell than serve in Heaven ! But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...place the emphatic inflections. Thus, in the following passage from Milton (Paradise Lost, BI 262), To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign- in hell, than serve in heaven. The words heaven and hell are here opposed to each other, and ought, therefore, if we follow... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...least We shall be free ; 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...though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven! But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates aml copartuers of our loss,... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. And afterwards: -Here at least We shall be free! tb' bell, than serve in heav'n. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 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. ßut wherefore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | 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 - 1838 - 518 pages
...least We shall be free ; th' 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...though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. 240 recovered strength] Revigorate, resumed, recovering, reviving self-raised, self-recovered.... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 518 pages
...shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 260 Her£ we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is...though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. 9-io recover'd strength] Revigorate, resumed, recovering, reviving self-raised, self-recovered.... | |
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