 | 1814 - 568 Seiten
...or beggars. " O rico, o pinjada," rich, or hanged, "neck, or nothing." Milton makes Lucifer say, " To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven." But the adage seems to have a special reference to the respect usually paid to idiots.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 Seiten
...of the finest characteristic passages in the Paradise Lost. Satan in triumphant despair exclaims -" In my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell ; Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." Which is precisely the sentiment expressed by Stafford. A reader who is well acquainted... | |
 | 1852 - 798 Seiten
...should be, all but less than he WThom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not...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,... | |
 | 1819 - 308 Seiten
...Here at least We shall be free ! lh' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive as hence : Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice...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, the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 Seiten
...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 keif than servt? in heaven. 2. I would rather be thejirit' man in that village" than the teeond' in... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 Seiten
...should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be free ; the heard a hollow sound. " Come, sister, come !" (it...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 Seiten
...Princedoms, Virtues, and that fine characteristic passage, put into the mouth of the rebellious Satan, " Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice To reign...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 Seiten
...should be; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not...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 Seiten
...should be ; all but less than He Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free : the' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy : will not...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 essayists - 1823 - 820 Seiten
...new possessor, one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. i. 250. And afterwards : — Here at least We shall be free ! th' Almighty hath...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,... | |
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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. 
