 | 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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 էջ
...at Icaft We fhall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign fecure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than ferve in Hcav'n. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th* alTociates... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 էջ
...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 not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 560 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 էջ
...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 not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 360 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 էջ
...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 drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; Better to... | |
 | abbé Barruel - 1798 - 460 էջ
...feen the prince of the fallen angels exclaiming in hjs pride, -i Here at lead We (hall be free; — Here we may reign fecure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, tho1 in hell : Better to reign in hell, thanyJrw in heaven. It is not to one of Weifhaupt's adepts... | |
 | abbé Barruel - 1798 - 1128 էջ
...feen the prince of the fallen angels exclaiming in his pride, Here at leaft We fliall be free ;— Here we may reign fecure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, tho' in hell : Better to reign in hell, than fer-vc in heaven. It is not to one of Weifhaupt's adepts... | |
 | abbé Barruel - 1799 - 288 էջ
...we not feen the prince of the fallen angels exclaiming in his pride, at leaft We fhall be free 5— Here we may reign fecure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, tho' in hell : Better to reign in hell, than feme in heaven. It is not to one of Weifhaupt's adepts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 էջ
...all but let thr.n he Whom thunder huth made j.rcaterf Here at laaft We fhall be free ; th' Almight)- hath not built 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 էջ
...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 not built Here for his...envy, will not drive us hence : 260 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell, than... | |
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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. 
