 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.  The British Essayists;: Spectator - Էջ 238Alexander Chalmers - 1808Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Charles Moore - 1790 - 472 էջ
...fuicide on any occafion. The fpeech of Satan in Milton is exactly oppofite in every point. • » " In my choice " To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: " Better to reign in Hell than ferve in Heaven!" The Greek tragedians very frequently introduce the idea of fuicide, as much becoming... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 278 էջ
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 260 Here we may reign fecure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell : Better Better to reign in Hell, than ferve in Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th'... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 էջ
...least We shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 560 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign...worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in HelJ, than serve in Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 282 էջ
...prsesse Tartaro liquidem juvat, Cecils quam in ipsis servi obire munia. Milton I. 261. and in my chcrtcc To reign is worth ambition though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. VIII. An interpolation in Grotius, Innominata qtueque nominibui sui.i, Libet vocare propriis... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 էջ
...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 drive us hence : Here...though in hell; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven !" " I might multiply passages of the same kind ; but I dare only allude to the proposition... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 էջ
...least We shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 360 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign...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, 265 Lie... | |
 | John Walker - 1799 - 438 էջ
...the common arrangement of emphatic inflexion, though contrary to the ftrongert fenfe of the paflage : To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell, than/irrw in heaven. Moft readers, I fay, in repeating thefe lines, will pronounce the laft line as... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 էջ
...at least We shall he free ' th' Almighty hath not huilt Here for his envy, will not drive us hence i Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth amhition though in hell i Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n. . But wherefore let we then... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 էջ
...Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 260 Here we rmiy reign fecure, and in my choice To rei^n is worth ambition though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell, than ferve in He.iv'n. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' allbciates and copartners of... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 էջ
...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 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,... | |
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