 | 1836 - 932 psl.
...brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. And afterwards: -Here at least We shall be free! tb' Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 psl.
...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 in my choice To reign is worth ambition , though in hell : Retter to... | |
 | 1836 - 558 psl.
...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'... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 psl.
...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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 psl.
...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 in my choice To reign is worth ambition , though in bell : Better... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 psl.
...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 in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 psl.
...bringe A mind mil to be chang'd by place or time. And afterwards: Here at leaet We shall be free ! th1 Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign ie worth ambition, though in hell: Better to... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 psl.
...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 not drive us hence : aoo Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1838 - 216 psl.
...— till at last it lift its head into the clouds and strike the firmament, and end with the Satanic choice— " To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven !" And this it is, then, that we are called on to renounce and to resist,... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1838 - 404 psl.
...est; etsi in Tartaro, Alto pricesse juvat, • Cotlis quam in ipsis, servire."—CROTIUJ. And in tnv choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."—MILTOH. Satan's address to Eve in Paradise Lost. " Sovereign of creatures,... | |
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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. 
