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
 | 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,... | |
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