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
| Elisabeth Jay - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 240 pages
...personages, as patrons and guardians of his intellectual temple, who of old time, before faith had birth, Apart sat on a hill retired In thoughts more elevate,...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Passion and apathy, and glory, and shame Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. And, indeed, he does... | |
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