 | George Leonard - Education - 1987 - 292 pages
...place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. 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 be free. . . . It is not... | |
 | Alice K. Turner - Devil in art - 1993 - 324 pages
...Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. 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 last We shall be free; th' Almighty hath... | |
 | N. K. Oo - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1995 - 100 pages
...Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be? . . . "So Satan spake," the poet tells us, and it is the very groaning music of blasted grandeur. "Hail... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less then he Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; th'Almighty hath... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...reign supreme: The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of 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 be free; the Almighty hath... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - Bible - 1999 - 180 pages
...the burning lake. Satan's irony, then, is a characteristic expression of his will, of his selfness: What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be. (I, z$6f) If a point can be gained for the will, the self may seem to be sacrificed temporarily; but... | |
 | Amélie Rorty - Good and evil - 2001 - 376 pages
...Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than hee Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; th' Almighty... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 2001 - 598 pages
...supreme: The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. What matrer where, if I be still the same. And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made grearer? Here at least We shall be free; the Almighty hath... | |
 | Francis Blessington - Epic poetry, English - 2004 - 161 pages
...(3.236-40) The Satanic contrast to these speeches is the adversary's assertion of the subjective-case /: "What matter where, if I be still the same, / And what I should be, all but less than hee / Whom Thunder hath made greater?" (1.256-58). Satan's egoistic assertiveness... | |
 | Mary C. Fenton - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 254 pages
...example, the proven truth of God's military power though not necessarily the totality of God's power: "What matter where, if I be still the same, / And what I should be, all but less then he / Whom Thunder hath made greater?" (1.256-58). Therefore, it would not have been... | |
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What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? 
