 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...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 !" " I might multiply passages of the same kind ; but I dare only allude to the proposition... | |
 | John Walker - 1799 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pages
...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 pages
...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 serve in Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - 1805 - 364 pages
...might' " Extort from me, to bow and fue for grace •• Wi.h fuppliant knee, and deify his pow't. "To reign is worth ambition though in hell ; " Better to reign in hdl'than ferve in Heav'n. . M Which way Ifly is hell ;; myfelf am hell ; . " And in the loweft deep... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...for his envy — will not drive us hence : 260 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reiljn is worth ambition though in 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 Milton - 1809 - 518 pages
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 26» 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 Heaven ! Ver. 252. Receive t/iy new pqffeffbur !] This paflagc feems to be an improvement... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...Almighty hath not buitl 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, Th' associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...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 copartners of our loss,... | |
| |
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. 
