 | 1852 - 874 Seiten
...at least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath pot built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: G D\Cx< in Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, The associates and copartners of our loss,... | |
 | John W. Crawford - 1978 - 216 Seiten
...power behind the throne. Both are determined to achieve power no matter what the price. Satan says, "To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: / Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n" (l.262-263): Achitophel is eoually determined: "in friendship false. implacable in hate; / Pesolv'd... | |
 | John C. L. Gibson - 1981 - 236 Seiten
...Arch-fiend's Promethean-like boast, spat forth from the infernal regions: Here at last We shall be free . . . Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign...though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. THE RECKONING— THE SERPENT Genesis 3:14-15 and dust you shall eat all the days of your... | |
 | Liz Greene - 1984 - 384 Seiten
...civilisation and reflection becomes a genuine one, and dignifies the nobility of the human spirit. SCORPIO Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign...hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n. Milton, Paradise Lost We have met in preceding chapters the realm of the archaic Mother whose theriomorphic... | |
 | Bruce Zuckerman - 1998 - 310 Seiten
...Here at least 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 reign...though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.391 It is this last point, in particular, that makes Job's version of the birthday curse... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 Seiten
...to the third element of Kierkegaard's triad, necessity: Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign...Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n. (1.256-64) This is the utterance of one who would make a choice out of a necessity. The rivalry with... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 Seiten
...what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will...though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and co-partners of our loss,... | |
 | Alice K. Turner - 1993 - 324 Seiten
...Here at last 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 reign...Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n! With truly Puritan zeal, the demons set to work on the side of a volcano to build a splendiferous palace,... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 Seiten
...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. When Eve yields to Satan's temptations and bites the forbidden fruit, the effect is of loss,... | |
 | Bruce Zuckerman - 1998 - 310 Seiten
...at least 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 reign...Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n. 391 While Job, like Milton's Satan, has no particular love for the netherworld per se, he is more than... | |
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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... 
