 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 - 1789 - 278 pages
...me, they little know How dearly I abide that boaft fo v*ain, Under what torments inwardly 1 groan, While they adore me on the throne of hell, With diadem and fceptre high advanc'd, J« The lower ftill I fall, only fupreme In mifery ; fuch joy ambition finds.... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 278 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, go The lower ftill I fall, only fupreme In mifery ; fuch joy ambition finds.... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...seduc'd With other promises and other vaunts Than to submit, boasting I could subdue Th' 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... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...seduc'd With other promises and other vaunts Than to submit, boasting I could subdue 85 Th' 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...seduc'd With other promises and other vaunts Than to submit, boasting I could subdue 85 Th' 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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 advanc'd , The lower still I fall , only supreme In misery : such joy Ambition finds.... | |
 | James Burgh - 1804 - 312 pages
...little know • .\aju-(» HOT/ 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 sceptrehigh advanc'd, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery ; suchjoj ambition finds. Frldc.... | |
 | Pierre Franc M'Callum - 1805 - 376 pages
...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 advanc'd The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery : such joy ambition finds. But... | |
 | William Enfield - 1805 - 456 pages
...me, they little know Hew dearly I abide that boaft fo vain, TJnder what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell : With diadem and fceptre high advane'd, The lower ftill I fall, only fupreme In mifery ; fuch joy ambition finds. Put... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...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 advanc'd, The lower still I fall, only supreme ]n misery j such joy ambition finds. But... | |
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