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... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3821852Full view - About this book
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...Enfer What matter where , if I be still the same > And what I should be ; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall...choice To reign is worth ambition , though in hell : Retter to reign in hell , than serve in heaven. " But wherefore let we then our faithful friends... | |
| 1836 - 932 pages
...brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. And afterwards: -Here at least We shall be free! tb' bell, than serve in heav'n. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater 1 Here at least We shall be free : the Almighty hath not built Sere for his envy; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be ; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall...though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. ßut wherefore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...III. 4 What matter where , if I be still the same , And what I should be ; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall...in my choice To reign is worth ambition , though in bell : Better to reign in hell , than serve in heaven. " But wherefore let we then our faithful friends... | |
| Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...bringe A mind mil to be chang'd by place or time. And afterwards: Here at leaet We shall be free ! th1 Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not...Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign ie worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n. Amidst those impieties... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...BOOK I. What matter where , if I be still the same , And what I should be ; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall...free ; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; wilj not drive us hence : Here we may reign secùïe ; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition... | |
| Thomas Griffith - 1838 - 216 pages
...— till at last it lift its head into the clouds and strike the firmament, and end with the Satanic choice— " To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven !" And this it is, then, that we are called on to renounce and to resist, in the very first... | |
| Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - Commonplace-books - 1838 - 404 pages
...est; etsi in Tartaro, Alto pricesse juvat, • Cotlis quam in ipsis, servire."—CROTIUJ. And in tnv choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."—MILTOH. Satan's address to Eve in Paradise Lost. " Sovereign of creatures, universal... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 518 pages
...shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 260 Her£ we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is...though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. 9-io recover'd strength] Revigorate, resumed, recovering, reviving self-raised, self-recovered.... | |
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