 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pagina’s
...Almighty hath not built Here for bis envy ; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure; and Addison bell, than serve in heav'n. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 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 co-partners of our loss,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pagina’s
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, } in Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pagina’s
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 552 pagina’s
...LECT. n. fectly agrees with truth and nature. We might almost imagine that Satan actually exclaimed, "To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven." May not something take place amongst these fallen spirits similar to what we know often... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 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." Perhaps of all the passages in Paradise Lost, the descrip tion of the employments of the... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pagina’s
...Almighty halli not built Here for his envy / will not drive us hence ; Herewe may reign secure; and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in Heaven. He is my bane. I cannot bear him ; One heav'n and earth can never hold us both, : Still... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pagina’s
...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 in Hell than serve in Heaven." The whole of the speeches and debates in Pandemonrum are well worthy of the place and the... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pagina’s
...the two following examples. though not expressed, is, in Mr. Walker's opinion, clearly implied. 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 vitlage than the se'cond in Rome'." General... | |
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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. 
