 Omnipotent. Ay me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain. Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery : such joy...  Studies in Milton - Page xxxiiby Sten Bodvar Liljegren - 1918 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1746 - 464 pages
...me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boafl fo vain 5 Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of hell, With diadem, and fceptre, high advanc'd, yt) The lower ftill I fall, only fupreme , In mifery ; fueh joy ambition finds... | |
 | John Milton - 1750 - 630 pages
...me, they little know How dearly I abide that boaft fo vain ; Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the Throne of Hell. With Diadem and Sceptre high advanc'd, The lower ftill I fall, only fupreme In mifery j fuch joy Ambition finds. But... | |
 | John Milton - 1750 - 666 pages
...wor&fubmijfion. repent ? Bentley. How dearly I abide that boaft fo vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. With diadem and fcepter high advanc'd, 90 The lower ftill I fall, only fupreme In miferyj fuch joy ambition finds.... | |
 | John Milton - 1754 - 342 pages
...little know How dearly I abide that boaft fo vain ; . . . -. Under what torments inwardly I groan , While they adore me on the throne of hell. With diadem , and feeptre , high ad vanc'd , The lower ftill I fall, only fupreme In mifery ; fiich joy ambition finds... | |
 | John Milton - 1759 - 608 pages
...Ay me, they little know How dearly I abide that boafl fo vain; Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. With diadem and fcepter high advanc'd, 9o The lower ftill I fall, only fupreme In mifery; fuch joy ambition finds.... | |
 | John Milton - 1763 - 670 pages
...Bentley. not repent .* How dearly I abide that boaft fo vain. Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. With diadem and fcepter high advanc'd, 90 The lower ftill I fall, only fupreme In mifery ; filch joy ambition finds.... | |
 | John Milton - 1767 - 376 pages
...boafling I could fubdue Th'Omnipotent. Ay me, they little know How Nearly I abide that boaft fo vain, Under what torments inwardly I groane -. While they adore me on the throne of hell, With diadem and fcepter high advanc't The lower (till I fall, only fupream In miferie ; fuch joy ambition findes. But... | |
 | 1776 - 478 pages
...they little know How dearly I abide that boa ft fo vain, Under \yhat torments inwardly I groan, Pllj While they adore me on the throne of HelL With diadem and feepter high advanc'd 90 The lower ltill I fall, only fupreme In mifery ; filch joy ambition finds.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 316 pages
...Ay me, they little know How dearly I abide that boaft fo vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. With diadem and fcepter high advanc'd, 90 The lower ftill I fall, only fupreme In mifery ; fuch joy ambition finds.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...Ah me, they little know How dearly I abide that boaft fo vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of hell : With diadem and fceptre high advanc'd, The lower ftill I fall, only fupreme In mifery : fuch joy ambition finds. But... | |
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