 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 354 страници
...Hi' 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. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places x>f the poem,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 страници
...th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, am serve in Heav'n. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners of our... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 страници
...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 is worth ambition 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... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 страници
...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 is worth ambition, though in 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 страници
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 страници
...hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 260 Here we may reign secure, and in ray 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, Th' associates and copartners of our... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 страници
...Almi-lity hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : 260 Hure we may reitrn secure ; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to «-sign in hell, than serve in heaven But wherefore let we then our faithful friende. Th- associates... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 страници
...not built Here for his envy, will not drive us henee : Here we may reign seeure, and, in my ehoiee, irlond hadde he sette upon his hede, As gret as it were for an alestake serve in Heav'n. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' assoeiates and eopartners of our... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 страници
...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 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 co-partners... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 528 страници
...what I should be ; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater '( Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. It is interesting to trace the different ways in which different individuals acquire an ascendency... | |
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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. 
