 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 Seiten
...propre demeure; il » peut faire en soi un Ciel de l'Enfer, un Enfer III. 4 What matter where , if I be still the same , And what I should be ; all but...in my choice To reign is worth ambition , though in bell : Better to reign in hell , than serve in heaven. " But wherefore let we then our faithful friends... | |
 | 1841 - 640 Seiten
...Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same? And what t should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath...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... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 Seiten
...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 not...though in hell : Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." Perhaps of all the passages in Paradise Lost, the descrip tion of the employments of the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 Seiten
...should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater 1 Here at least We shall be free ; th' Almighty hath not built Here for His envy, will not...though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." The whole of the speeches and debates in Pandemonrum are well worthy of the place and the... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1846 - 362 Seiten
...itself Can make a beaven of hell, a hell of heaven. What matter where, if 1 be still the same 1 Jtnd what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder...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 Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 636 Seiten
...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 not...Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners of our loss, Lie thus astonish'd on th' oblivious pool, And call them... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1846 - 350 Seiten
...all out lees than he Whom tknnder hath made greater. Here at least We shall be free ; the .ilmiirHy hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us...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 Milton - 1847 - 604 Seiten
...We shall be free ; the Almighty hath not built • Here for his envy; will not drive us hence: 260 Here, we may reign secure ; and, in my choice, To...friends, The associates and co-partners of our loss, 26ft Wilh rallied arms, to try what may be yet Regain'd in Heaven, or what more lost in Hell ?" 270... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 Seiten
...least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : 260 Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, ' To...friends, The associates and copartners of our loss 265 Lie thus astonished on the oblivious pool, And call them not to share with us their part In this... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 Seiten
...Receive thy new possessor, one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time." And afterwards, -Here at least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath...though in hell : Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places of the poem, the... | |
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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; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and... 
