 | William Malin Porter - 1993 - Počet stránok 234
...taken as the very embodiment of the Homeric “virtues” that Milton rejects, avers early in book 1: in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. (i .261—63) Milton alludes to the dead Achilles' confession to Odysseus: ¿ouXotguv it'... | |
 | David Quint - 1993 - Počet stránok 448
...raignes" (1.20), rings changes on the proverbial Caesarian sentiment that Milton's Satan will echo: "To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: / Better to reign in Hell, than serve in heaven" (1.262-63). 21 Fletcher's Book 1 ends with a simile that belittles his devils by comparing... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - Počet stránok 630
...least We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 260 Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice, To reign...Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and co-partners of our loss, Lie thus astonished on th' oblivious pool, And call them... | |
 | Joseph M. Knippenberg, Peter Augustine Lawler - 1996 - Počet stránok 340
...the Novel 8 (1976): 60. 21. Maurois, 146-57. The Sea-Wolf: Nature Versus Morality Patrick Malcolmson Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign...though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. Paradise Lost, Book I Jack London's best novels are still widely read, by the young for... | |
 | Bruce Zuckerman - 1998 - Počet stránok 310
...Milton's Paradise Lost: 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...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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - Počet stránok 686
...mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. 7558 Paradise Lost To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, thanserve in heaven. 7559 Paradise Lost First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice,... | |
 | Philip Gaskell - 1999 - Počet stránok 188
...least We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence. 40 Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign...Heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Tb' associates and copartners of our loss, 45 Lie thus astonish'd on th' oblivious poo 1 , And call... | |
 | Elizabeth Webber, Mike Feinsilber - 1999 - Počet stránok 614
...what should I be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least 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 term in use, by rocker Warren Zevon, quoted in the Philadelphia Daily News by Jonathan... | |
 | Elizabeth Webber, Mike Feinsilber - 1999 - Počet stránok 614
...what should I be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least 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 term in use, by rocker Warren Zevon, quoted in the Philadelphia Daily News by Jonathan... | |
 | Elizabeth Webber, Mike Feinsilber - 1999 - Počet stránok 614
...what should I be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least 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 term in use, by rocker Warren Zevon, quoted in the Philadelphia Daily News by Jonathan... | |
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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. " But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, 265 " The associates... 
