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
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 536 pages
...of this nature, as any of our English poets whatsoever ; but shall only mention that which follows, in which he describes the fallen angels engaged in...Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more eleyate, and reason'd high Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pages
...of this nature, as any of our English poets whatsoever ; but shall only mention that which follows, in which he describes the fallen angels engaged in...words that describe it. Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...condemned spirits, without that cast of horror and melancholy he has BO judiciously mingled with them. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd In thoughts more elevate, and reaaon'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
| Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...condemned spirit«, without that cast of horror and melancholy he hat so judiciously mingled with them I Others apart sat on a hill retir'd. In thoughts more elevate, and reanon'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, aud fate, Kixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
| Félicité Robert de Lamennais - Catholic Church - 1859 - 496 pages
...d'accord et plus de raison dans cette philosophie de l'enfer, si admirablement peinte par le poète. 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... | |
| Felicité Robert de Lamennais - 1859 - 488 pages
...d'accord et plus de raison dans cette philosophie de l'enfer, si admirablement peinte par le poète. 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... | |
| George Winfred Hervey - 1860 - 422 pages
...is responsible for his wrong judgment, so he must be responsible for all its consequences. — ED. " Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
| Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1861 - 368 pages
...follows, in which he defcribes the fallen angels engaged in the intricate difputes of predeftination, free-will, and foreknowledge ; and to humour the perplexity, makes a kind of labyrinth in the very words that defcribe it. Others apart fate on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reafon'd high, Of providence,... | |
| John Milton - 1862 - 568 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. Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
| Medicine - 1863 - 594 pages
...expressed in his well-known lines descriptive of the topics of the contemplations of his fallen angels : " 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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