 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
 | Catherine Palmer - Fiction - 2002 - 338 pages
...painted a vain picture of myself, not unlike one of Milton's idle philosophers when he wrote: Othen apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate,...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. "You see, my dear girl, my own selfish desire to end my... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Collections - 2002 - 296 pages
...to be its discrepancy with the usage of 'all known languages' (L 129). 9. The fallen angels talked 'Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, | Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, | And found no end, in wandring mazes lost' (Paradise Lost, II, ll. 559-61), lines STC later applies... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...ravishment0 The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more...foreknowledge absolute, 560 And found no end, in wandering ma2es lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and fmal misery, Passion and apathy,... | |
 | Ken Hiltner - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 182 pages
...reason'd high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate Fixt Fate, Free Will, Foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argu'd then Of happiness and final misery, Passion and Apathy, and glory and shame, Vain wisdom all,... | |
 | John Sandys-Wunsch - Religion - 2005 - 402 pages
...at this obsession by describing how some of the fallen angels in hell form a theological society: . Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost."1 A lot of effort in New Testament commentaries was devoted... | |
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