 | English literature - 1803 - 402 pages
...condemned spirits, without that cast of 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 fete, freewill, foreknowledge... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...condemned spirits, without that cast of 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,... | |
 | Andrews Norton - Periodicals - 1813 - 424 pages
...thought of Milton, who introduces the devils as tormenting their souls with this abstruse inquiry: Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Jfo. l. Vol.... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Law - 1814 - 608 pages
...new world, our earth, Milton occupies the fallen angels n his absence, with discussing metaphyscis. " Others apart sat on a hill retired, , In thoughts...fate, Fixed fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost." Had last wills and testaments been then, he might have given... | |
 | John Herman Merivale - English literature - 1814 - 168 pages
...p. 240. J The reader will immediately 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;... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 pages
...set his damned spirits about such work as this, and bas made it a part of their endless punishment. Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate ; and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, ana fate: ¥'a.'dfale, free-will, foreknowledge absolute,... | |
 | Mrs. Kelly - 1821 - 872 pages
...endeavouring, by prayer and contemplation, to lull to rest her fears, and subdue her terrors. CHAPCHAPTER III. Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned higli Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...ravishment The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense), Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute... | |
 | Henry Horne - Essays - 1823 - 266 pages
...where the demons are represented dispersed in picturesque parties, playing the devil in earnest : * Others apart, sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high.' " This is the Bank of England, which our old ladies, who deposit their hoards there,... | |
 | Henry Horne (jr) - London (England) - 1824 - 252 pages
...where the demons are represented dispersed in picturesque parties, playing the devil in earnest: ' Others apart, sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high.' " This is the Bank of England, which our old ladies, who deposit their hoards there,... | |
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Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. 
