 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 էջ
...should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater ! Here at least We shall be free ; the L W Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 էջ
...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... | |
 | John C. L. Gibson - 1981 - 236 էջ
...spat forth from the infernal regions: Here at last We shall be free . . . 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 RECKONING— THE SERPENT Genesis 3:14-15 and dust you shall... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 էջ
...a bird to settle where I will, in book 1 of The Prelude with Milton's Satan: Here at least We shall be free: th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign... | |
 | Liz Greene - 1984 - 384 էջ
...becomes a genuine one, and dignifies the nobility of the human spirit. SCORPIO 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, Paradise Lost We have met in preceding chapters the... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 էջ
...where I will, in book 1 of The Prelude with Milton's Satan: Here at least We shall be free: th'Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign... | |
 | Edward W. Said - 1985 - 442 էջ
...I will,37 in Book 1 of The Prelude with Milton's Satan: Here at least We shall be free: th'Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign... | |
 | Bruce Zuckerman - 1998 - 310 էջ
...famous cry of Satan in the Hell of Milton's Paradise Lost: Here at least We shall be free; th'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... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 էջ
...Kierkegaard's triad, necessity: 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. (1.256-64) This is the utterance of one who would make a choice... | |
 | Alice K. Turner - 1993 - 324 էջ
...same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at last We shall be free; th' 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... | |
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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. 
