 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 - Seite 431823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 628 Seiten
...little varying of expression, makes one of the finest turns of words that I have ever seen : which I the rather mention, because Mr. Dryden has said in his...reason'd high Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate,Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no en'l, in wand'ring mazes lost, *iA... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 Seiten
...fire." If we may credit Milton, the devils had some knowledge of this ; for he says, They reasoned high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate...absolute ; An'd found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Providence neither promised nor afforded them perpetual support; To free-will they were left, in. free-will... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 Seiten
...pass and repass from the lite ral to the metaphorical sublime. " Others apart sat an a hill retired, " In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high " Of Providence,..." Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute." NOTE (H h), P. 397. In the effect of this superiority of stature, there seems to be something specifically... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 Seiten
...horror and melancholy he has so judiciously mingled with them. Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. In our present... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 Seiten
...Milton drops some hints of it in his second book of Paradise Lost. Others apart sat on a hill rctir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, FLx'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Line 557.... | |
 | Francis Plowden - 1812 - 566 Seiten
...which (p. 3 9) he ushers in this very important subject with the lines from Milton. Par. Lost. b. 2. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd In thoughts more elevate, and reason *d High of providence, foreknowledge, will and fates FU'd fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1813 - 424 Seiten
...with this abstruse inquiry: Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,...absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Jfo. l. Vol. III. I Those who, notwithstanding the opinion of Milton, still think it possible to obtain... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 Seiten
...The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet $55 (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 providi-ncc, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute; 5CO And... | |
 | John Evans - 1814 - 536 Seiten
...perplexity of the theme harassed angelic minds, according to the re-presentation of Milton : — " Others apart, sat on a hill retir'd, " In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high, " Of providence, fart-luimahdge, -will, mAfate ; " F'ufd fate, free-will, fort-ttiemltJge absolutCj " And found NO END... | |
 | John Herman Merivale - 1814 - 168 Seiten
...call to mind the occupation of the fallen angels in Milton — Others apart sat on a hill retired, 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 wandering mazes lost. Of good and... | |
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