 Others apart sat on a hill retired, 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.  Another stroll, being the third, of W.C.S. and his alter idem friend P.P. - Page 25by sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - 1836Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) 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, 560 And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) 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, 560 And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...difficulty of making advancements in such unfathomable points. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd 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
...discourse more sweet, (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense). Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd 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
...more sweet 555 (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) 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, 560 And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil... | |
 | 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...high " Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, .• Fixt fete, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, " And found no end in wandering maxes lost." In our... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...horror and melancholy he has so judiciously mingled with them. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. In our present... | |
 | Ely Bates - Christian ethics - 1806 - 445 pages
...that endeavoured to divert their griefs by musical strains, and various feats of war and agility, " Sat on a hill, retired, In thoughts more elevate,...fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argu'd then, Of happiness and final misery,... | |
 | John Evans - 1808 - 342 pages
...angelic minds, according to the representation of Milton :— " Others apart, sat on a hillretir'd, "In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high, ** Of...fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, " And found no end — in uandering mazei lost I" To short-sighted mortals, with all their boasted^ wisdom, the... | |
 | Thomas Le Mesurier - Cults - 1808 - 492 pages
...amusing themselves in another world with abstract speculations. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fata, free-will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. PAR. LOST,... | |
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