 Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wand'ring mazes lost Sir Richard Steele assisted in this...  The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical - Page 164edited by - 1823Full 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...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, 554. Suspended hell,] Theeffect of their... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet, (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) 550 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 wUl, foreknowledge absolute;... | |
 | 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;... | |
 | English essays - 1829 - 804 pages
...the fallen augels engaged in the intricate disputes of predestination, free-will, and for* knowledge; and, to humour the perplexity, makes a kind of labyrinth...words that describe it. ' Others apart sat on a hill relir'd. lu thoughts more elevate, and reason 'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge will, and fate,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1831 - 704 pages
...of this nature as any of our English poets whatsoever ; but shall only mention that which follows, e • Other« apnrt sat on a hill retired, In Tli"ii-;ht- mort: elevate, and reasoned hipli Of providcnc*,... | |
 | 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,... | |
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