 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...  Savonarola, Erasmus, and Other Essays - Page 300by Henry Hart Milman - 1870 - 500 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854
...which, without one exception, happen to be metaphysical, must and will victoriously return upon us. • Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, Fixed Fate, Free Will, Foreknowledge Absolute,' the ruined angels of Milton (Par. Lost, b. ii.) converse, as of the highest themes which could occupy... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 491 pages
...song charms the sense) 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. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and... | |
 | John Milton - 1855
...to object to inquiries that he himself so vigorously pursued. If the fallen angels " reasoned high " "Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate. Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute," it is probable they only carried on speculations to which they, as well as those " who kept their first... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie - Bible - 1856 - 434 pages
...by Milton : — " Others apart sate 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. Of good and evil much they argued there — Vain wisdom... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 570 pages
...charms the sense), 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 Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and... | |
 | English poetry - 1857
...charms the sense,) 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 ; 268 Thus roving on, In confused march forlorn, the adventurous bands, With shuddering horror pale,... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1858
...from one streams the fire of inspiration, and from the other rains life and blessing. No. V. Of Power. "Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute." The explanation in the paper found in Scott's handwriting is this : " Man in his pride holds the sceptre... | |
 | Heinrich Gelzer - Reformation - 1858 - 356 pages
...angelic intellects. " 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." Of Mary's reign, the question may unblamably offer itself,... | |
 | 1860
...those described long ago by Milton, when the lost spirits, in their drear abode, — " reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." Vol. 59.— No. 2C5. F Poor Mrs. Marvyn herself, in Mrs.... | |
 | George Winfred Hervey - 1860
...consequences. — ED. " Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, 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." The poet thought, with great truth, that these questions,... | |
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