Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory ... - Page 2351854Full view - About this book
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| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...ravishment The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more...providence, 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... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...554 The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more...providence, 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... | |
| Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...epithets of slow pronunciation, shews the difficulty of making advancements in such unfathomable points. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more...high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute ; And found no end in wand'ring mazes lost, i Pyrr/n,... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...ravishment The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet, (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense). Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate j Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge ahsolute; And found no end in wand 'ring mazes lost. Of good... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet 555 (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more...providence, 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... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 402 pages
...together in a kind of respite from their torments, and creating to themselves a new disquiet amidst their very amusements ; he could not properly have described...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,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...together in a kind of respite from their torments, and creating to themselves a new disquiet amidst their very amusements : he could not properly have described...high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. In our present... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 340 pages
...themselves a new disquiet amidst their very amusements ; he could not properly have described the sport of condemned spirits, without that cast of horror...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost*. In our present... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 296 pages
...themselves a new disquiet amidst their very amusements ; he could not properly have described the sport of condemned spirits, without that cast of horror...judiciously mingled with them : Others apart sat on a bill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd hisii Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and... | |
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