 | 1822 - 496 pages
...makes a kind of labyrinth in the very words that describe it. ' Others apart sat on a hill retir'J, 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 wandering mazes lost*.' r Dryden... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 426 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, Fist fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost.* In our present... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 862 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...high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." VoL. III.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...quoted rv%ri fortune. Milton has well comprehended both, inthrall to force or chance. Bentley. I 2 (What could it less when spi'rits immortal sing ?)...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, 554. Suspended hell,] Theeffect of their singing is somewhat like that of Orpheus in hell, Virg. Georg.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...it is quoted .rv^ fortune, Milton has well comprehended both, inthrall tofofce or chance. Bentley. (What could it less when spi'rits immortal sing ?)...sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason 'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, 555 554. Suspended hell,] The effect of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...complain that fate Free virtue should inthrall to force or chance. . Their eong was partial, but the ll th' Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple...h,t Blindness. When 1 consider how my light is spen retired, ' Irs thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...complain that fate 550 Free virtue should enthrall to force, or chance. Their song was partial ; but the harmony (What could it less when spirits immortal...sweet, (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) 550 Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high, Of providence,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...golden secret, the sought " Kalon " found, And seated in my soul. Byron's Manfred, a. 3, s. I ,• Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge, absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Milton's... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...substance or profit." Milton has made metaphysics the idle sport of the fallen angels : Others apart, sate on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate ; and...high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — Vain wisdom all, and vain philosophy. Paradise Loxt, book 2. Telcmachus (of Bishop Fenelon) Is... | |
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Their song was partial, but the harmony (What could it less when spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment The thronging audience. 
