 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pagina’s
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, sister, come away ! Once like thyself, I trembled, in Heaven. Hut where-fore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | John Payne Collier - 1820 - 394 pagina’s
...characteristic passage, put into the mouth of the rebellious Satan, " 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 !" Now read the following passage in a prose author, who wrote while Milton was yet almost... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 354 pagina’s
...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...impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places x>f the poem, the author has taken care to introduce none that is not big with absurdity, and incapable... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pagina’s
...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. 258r Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places of the poem,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pagina’s
...must do so who would greatly win. Byron's Doge of Venice, a. 2, s. 1. 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's Paradise Lost, b. 1. His trust was with th' Eternal to be deem'd Equal in strength, and rather... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my `B / But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners of our loss, Lie thus... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pagina’s
...Tartaro: Alto preesse Tartaro siquidem juvat, Caelis quam in ipsis servi obire munia. Milton, i. 261. and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. VIII. An interpolation in Grotius, Imioium.it,'! quaeque nominibus suis, Libet vocare propriis... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pagina’s
...: Alto pneesse Tartaro siquidem juvat, Caelis quam in ipsis servi obire munia. Milton, i. 261. and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. VIII. An interpolation in Grotius, Innominata quaeque nominibus suis, Libet vocare propriis... | |
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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. 
