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 - 1880 - 532 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 retirM, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate,... | |
| English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...turns of this nature as any of our English poets whatsoever; but shall only mention that which follows, at is in commending virtue in another ; especially...field, without coming home to any man. I knew two retired. In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fata.... | |
| John Milton - 1881 - 894 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... | |
| Austin Dobson - English essays - 1882 - 324 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...in the very words that describe it — Others apart sate on a hill retir'd, In thoughis more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, fore-knowledge,... | |
| Austin Dobson - English essays - 1882 - 322 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...kind of labyrinth in the very words that describe itOthers apart sate on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, fore-knowledge,... | |
| John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 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, Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
| John Milton - English literature - 1926 - 412 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, Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
| Robert Bridges - Church music - 870 pages
...turns 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 the intricate disputes of predestination, free will and foreknowledge; and, to humour the perplexity, makes a kind of laby rinth in the very... | |
| Graham Hough - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 260 pages
...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 elevate, and reason'd high Of providence foreknowledge, will, and fate. (Paradise Lost n, 546-60) It is hard to... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 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, Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
| |