 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...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 loss,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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 pages
...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 ; A bokeler hadde But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' assoeiates and eopartners of our loss, Lie thus... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 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 co-partners of our... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : 26O 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 !v -rt But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 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,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...the following examples the treble emphasis, though not expressed, is evidently implied. EXAMPLES. 1. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign' in hell' than serve' in heaven'. 2. I would rather be the first' man in that village'' than the tecond' in Rome\ THE ANTECEDENT.... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...place the emphatic inflections. Thus, in the following passage from Milton (Paradise Lost, BI 262), To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign- in hell, than serve in heaven. The words heaven and hell are here opposed to each other, and ought, therefore, if we follow... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 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 reigu in Hell than serve in Heaven ! But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...tb' 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 bell, than serve in heav'n. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places... | |
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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. 
