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 - Pàgina 164editat per - 1823Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1863 - 586 pàgines
...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... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1864 - 546 pàgines
...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...humour the perplexity, makes a kind of labyrinth in the veiy words that describe it. * Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1866 - 900 pàgines
...eye to his Labyrinths or Mazes, Milton represents the fallen angels engaged upon the problem : — " 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,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1870 - 524 pàgines
...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...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,... | |
| John Milton - 1870 - 436 pàgines
...The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet 555 (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,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pàgines
...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 high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
| John Milton - 1871 - 312 pàgines
...The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet, 555 (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... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 758 pàgines
...Hercules. — * ' Oechalia : ' a mount in Thessaly. (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) 658 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... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1876 - 536 pàgines
...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...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... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pàgines
...ravishment The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) e hast tho rcason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and (hie, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
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