 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
 | C. D. Broad, Charlie Dunbar Broad - Philosophy - 2000 - 318 pages
...0-415-21803-9 TO JACK DONALDSON 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 N. King - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...Sin as a personification follows PL 3.446, cd. Flannagan. 7 The absurd debate of theologian-devils "Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, /Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, /And found no end, in wandering mazes lost" (2.559 °') anticipates Limbo. Fidelia's tutelage "Of God,... | |
 | Steve Mason - Religion - 2001 - 446 pages
...has made famous attempts to tackle the problem. Milton writes of the fallen angels who: reasoned high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute; And formed no end, in wandering mazes lost. Paradise Lost 2:557f., cited in Greene, Moira, 397. 154... | |
 | L. Gordon Tait - Religion - 2001 - 292 pages
...Paradise Lost, 2.557-61: Odiers apart sat on a hill retired, In dioughts 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. 39. "Lectures on Divinity," Works, 4:87-88. 40. Ibid, 67.... | |
 | Sonja Hansard-Weiner - Culture and law - 2002 - 296 pages
...Will in Paradise Lost 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 wand'ring mazes lost. (2: 557-61) At the end of Book 10, Adam and Eve, after a... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Collections - 2002 - 296 pages
...to be its discrepancy with the usage of 'all known languages' (L 129). 9. The fallen angels talked 'Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, | Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, | And found no end, in wandring mazes lost' (Paradise Lost, II, ll. 559-61), lines STC later applies... | |
 | Catherine Palmer - Fiction - 2002 - 338 pages
...philosophers when he wrote: Othen 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. "You see, my dear girl, my own selfish desire to end my... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 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, 560 And found no end, in wandering ma2es lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness... | |
 | James A. Arieti - Philosophy - 2005 - 420 pages
...(Paradise Lost 2.557-561 ): Others apart sat on a hill retired In thoughis more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. 29. Diogenes of Oenoanda, in Chilton, Diogenes ofOenoanda,... | |
 | John Sandys-Wunsch - Religion - 2005 - 402 pages
...theological society: . 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 wand'ring mazes lost."1 A lot of effort in New Testament commentaries was devoted... | |
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