| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...complain that Fate 5* 0 JTce virtue thould unlu.ii to force or ehaucc. 1 heir song was partial, but the harmony (What could it less when spi'rits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment 554 The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,)... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 294 pages
...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...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost*. In our present... | |
| Thomas Le Mesurier - Cults - 1808 - 492 pages
...it is that our Milton represents as amusing themselves in another world with abstract speculations. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd In thoughts more...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fata, free-will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. PAR. LOST,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 348 pages
...fore-knowledge; and, to humour the perplexity, makes a kind of labyrinth in the very words that describe it. " Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of provideace, fore-knowledge, will, and late, Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute. And found... | |
| John Evans - 1808 - 342 pages
...angelic minds, according to the representation of Milton :— " Others apart, sat on a hillretir'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 uandering mazei lost I"... | |
| William Cowper - 1809 - 486 pages
...particularly charmed with the parody of those beautiful lines of Milton. *' The song was partial, but the harmony—— (What could it less, when spirits .immortal...Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment The thronging audienpe.'* There's a parenthesis for you ! The parenthesis it seems is out of fashion, and perhaps... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...complain that fate Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance. Their song was partial ; but the harmony (What could it less when Spirits immortal...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...condemned spiritsi 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...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, 3? ixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost.* In our present... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...spirits immortal Suspended Hell, and took with rav«h*iat The thronging audience. In discourse mon sweet, (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) Others apart sat on a hill retirM, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 384 pages
...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 wand'ring mazes lost*.' In... | |
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