 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, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.  The British Essayists: Tatler - Sivu 170tekijä(t) James Ferguson - 1819Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1840 - 598 sivua
...even in boyhood, in the most abstruse speculations, seizing upon any one with whom he might ' Reason high Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will and fate; Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute." Having convinced, or puzzled all about him, he would sally forth into the high road, and, by a species... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 sivua
...ravishment The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) ! can Sporus feel ! Who breaks a butterfly upon a...with gilded wings. This painted child of dirt, tha free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost Of good and evil much... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 sivua
...555 The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet, (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — 560 Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.... | |
 | 1841 - 640 sivua
...— ' or those with whom the moral philosopher sympathises yet more — who ' 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 — ' or expatiate over the muster-roll of their chiefs, in which... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 sivua
...ravishment The thronging audience. In 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... | |
 | Graham Hough - 1978 - 260 sivua
...heroic deeds and hapless fall, In discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more...high Of providence foreknowledge, will, and fate. (Paradise Lost n, 546-60) It is hard to see how the devils could have been better employed had they... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 sivua
...ravishment The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet (For Eloquence the Soul, Song charms the Sense,) Others apart sat on a Hill retir'd, In thoughts more...high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandring mazes lost. [2.552-61]... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sivua
...deeds on earth, which glory excites. Or close ambition varnisht o'er with zeal. (Bk. II, 1. 477^*85) 60 do lie beneath." (1. 59-60) ELP; ESPB; OBET; OxBB...49 Till by and came Our Blessed Lady, Her dear yo Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute. And found no end, in wandring mazes lost. Of good and... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 sivua
...(remembering, of course, the inversion of values that always obtains in hell — the higher, the lower): Others apart sat on a Hill retir'd, In thoughts more...high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixt Fate, Free will, Foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. (2.557-61)... | |
 | K. G. Binmore - 1994 - 624 sivua
...intellectual perversity that John Milton numbers them among the fallen angels. As Paradise Lost records: Others apart sat on a Hill retir'd, In thoughts more...high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Or it may... | |
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