 Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...  Paradise Lost - Page 101by John Milton - 1896 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Chemistry - 1773 - 700 pages
...Pelion, and sometimes Pelion upon Ossa, are not unlike those whom Milton describes— • . : '* Who reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. 1 ' Thus it is that the decisions of one age and one day... | |
 | Chemistry - 1773 - 682 pages
...Pelion, and sometimes Pelion upon Ossa, are not unlike those whom Milton describee — . • . I " Who reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will,...fate. Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Thus it is that the decisions of one age and one day differ... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, 560 And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then,...Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, glory and shame, Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy : 565 Yet with a pleasing sorcery could charm... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 402 pages
...condemned spirits, without that cast of horror and melancholy he has so judiciously mingled with them. " Others apart sat on a hill retired, " In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high " Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, .• Fixt fete, freewill, foreknowledge... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...foreknowledge, will, and fate, hi'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, 560 And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, 1'assion and apathy, and glory' and shame, Vain wisdom all and false philosophy : 565 Yet with a pleasing... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...condemned spirits, without that cast of horror and melancholy he has so judiciously mingled with them. Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
 | Andrews Norton - Periodicals - 1813 - 424 pages
...thought of Milton, who introduces the devils as tormenting their souls with this abstruse inquiry: Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Jfo. l. Vol.... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Law - 1814 - 608 pages
...new world, our earth, Milton occupies the fallen angels n his absence, with discussing metaphyscis. " Others apart sat on a hill retired, , In thoughts...providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." Had last wills and testaments... | |
 | John Herman Merivale - English literature - 1814 - 168 pages
...p. 240. J The reader will immediately call to mind the occupation of the fallen angels in Milton — Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute;... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 pages
...set his damned spirits about such work as this, and bas made it a part of their endless punishment. Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate ; and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, ana fate: ¥'a.'dfale, free-will, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
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