 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
 | Criticism - 1851 - 650 pages
...human speculatists on duty and morals, do we not encounter on the threshold those terrible problems of 'Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,' problems that have tasked the unaided understanding of man ever since he began to think and to reason?... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1851 - 684 pages
...human spoculatists on duty and morals, do we not encounter on the threshold those terrible problems of ' Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,' problems that have tasked the unaided understanding of man ever since he began to think and to reason... | |
 | William Clarkson - Christianity and other religions - 1851 - 370 pages
...discourse on such subjects as Milton describes as forming the converse of his " grand infernal peers." " Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and rcason'd high Of prudence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1851 - 344 pages
...wonderful that the discussion of them has given rise to endless controversies; and that they who have Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, Have found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Reasoned high (5.) It cannot be denied that ane reason... | |
 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...Of providenee, foreknowledge, will, and fate;r Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute : 5t° And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil mueh they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame; Vain... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...ravishment 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...fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. [546-61] I pass over the typical effect of the inversion... | |
 | Stephen Gaukroger - History - 1991 - 288 pages
...Restoration period in England, are particularly evident in the free will debate: of Milton's angels, Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more...reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and FateFixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absoluteAnd found no end, in wandering mazes lost. 3 For Pico,... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...ravishment 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...Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate Fixed fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute - 560 And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil... | |
 | Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 428 pages
...has made it a part of their endless punishment — ' Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thought more elevate; and reasoned high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate; Fixed fate, free will, fin-tno\cUdge aktolute, And found no end, In wandering mazes lost.' " In connection with this branch'W... | |
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