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. Orlando in Roncesvalles - Page 99by John Herman Merivale - 1814 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
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...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... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
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| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
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| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
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| 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...Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, .• Fixt fete, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, " And found no end in wandering maxes lost." In our present... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
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| 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,...high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 340 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 condition,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 348 pages
...makes a kind of labyrinth in the very words that describe it. " Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, i'ix'ci fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in -wandering mazes lost." N«... | |
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