 Others apart sat on a Hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.  An Historical Letter to the Rev. Charles 0'Conor, D.D.: Heretofore Styling ... - Page 261by Francis Plowden - 1812 - 17 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...golden secret, the sought " Kalon " found, And seated in my soul. Byron's Manfred, a. 3, s. I ,• 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,... | |
 | Classical philology - 1826 - 316 pages
...Milton, Paradise Lost, n. 555. 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'*! high Of providence, &c. Milton's partiality for Ovid is well known. It is not impossible that the passage... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 368 pages
...would have put you in mind of Milton's Devils, whom he represents as at times starving with cold : " 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... | |
 | James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1827 - 368 pages
...would have put you in mind of Milton's Devils, whom he represents as at times starving with cold: " Others apart, sat on a hill, retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and late ; Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute;... | |
 | 1830 - 372 pages
...would have put you in mind of Milton's Devils, whom he represents as at times starving with cold : " Others apart, sat on a hill, retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd higli Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fiv'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge... | |
 | John Towill Rutt - Chemists - 1831 - 450 pages
...assigned to his metaphysical Pandeemunians, during the absence of their chief on his perilous enterprize : 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... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet ( For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense, ) Others apart sat on a hill retird', In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...condemned spirits, without that cast of horror and melancholy he has so judiciously mingled with them: Others apart sat on a hill retir'd. In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd hijb Of providence, fbreknowledf«, will, and ft», 3*4 THE SPECTATOR. 345 Fin fate, freewill,... | |
 | George Rogers - Universalism - 1837 - 204 pages
...valid, they have engaged even the reasoning powers of fallen angels in their dreary pandemonium. . " 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... | |
 | George Rogers - Apologetics - 1839 - 396 pages
...valid, they have engaged even the reasoning powers of fallen angels in their dreary pandemonium. " 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... | |
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