 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 558 pagina’s
...what I should be ; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater ? Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. It is interesting to trace the different ways in which different individuals acquire an ascendency... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pagina’s
...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\... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pagina’s
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 260 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : 240 recover'd strength'] Revigorate, resumed, recovering, reviving, self-raised, self-recovered.... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 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 reigu in Hell than serve in Heaven ! But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pagina’s
...A mind not to he changed hy place or time. And afterward : Here at least 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. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places of the poem,... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pagina’s
...free! tb' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy; will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure; bell, than serve in heav'n. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pagina’s
...the 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 : Retter to reign in hell , than serve in heaven. " But wherefore let we then our faithful friends... | |
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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. 
