 | 1836 - 558 pages
...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 worth ambition, though in hell: Jetter to reign in hell, than serve in Heaven ! 3ut wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th'... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...least We shall be free ; 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...at least We shall be free; 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...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...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 , 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... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...at least We shall be free ; 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...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,... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pages
...at least We shall be free ; 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...though in hell; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven !" ' " I might multiply passages of the same kind ; but I dare only allude to the proposition... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...at least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: in Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends. The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...We shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built " Here for his envy ; — will not drive us hence : " Here we may reign secure ; and, in my choice, " To...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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 40 pages
...if I be still the same, And what I should be; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? In my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." PAB. LosT, B. i. The history of the world, as now recorded, has been a history of wars;... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...least We shall be (tee '. th' Almighty hath not built Here for bis envy ; will not drive us hence : deration, hath no other bell, than serve in heav'n. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places... | |
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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? Here at least We shall be free... 
