Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Christian Politics - Стр. 158авторы: Ely Bates - 1806 - Страниц: 445Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| 1823 - Страниц: 836
...angel's mighty thought unequal to the task ; and make even these su- ' pcrior spirits when reasoning high, " Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate ; Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute ;" To find—" No end in wandering mazes lost." These perplexing questions of " fixed fate, free-will,"... | |
| Henry Horne - 1823 - Страниц: 266
...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, emphatically call... | |
| E. Barton - 1823 - Страниц: 254
...will not plunge into the depth, to which such an accusation calls me. I will abstain from reasonings high, Of Providence, foreknowledge. will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute. We have learned from Milton, what disputants such inquiries might best suit ; and that those who so... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - Страниц: 646
...mazes of their discourse. And the turn of the words is greatly improved, and Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory' and shame, Vain wisdom all,... | |
| British poets - 1824 - Страниц: 676
...found, And seated in my soul. Byron's Manfred, a. 3, s. I ,• Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd 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 Paradise Lost,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - Страниц: 510
...more 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, foreknowledge, will, and fate: Fix'd fate, free wUl, foreknowledge absolute; 560 And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good, and evil,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - Страниц: 676
...discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, 554. Suspended hell,] Theeffect of their singing is somewhat like that of Orpheus in hell, Virg. Georg.... | |
| Henry Horne (jr) - 1824 - Страниц: 252
...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, emphatically call... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - Страниц: 1062
...more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) Others apart sat on a hill retired, ' Irs ys in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is F', x"'S fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, Arsd found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1825 - Страниц: 288
...spirits, without that cast of horror and melancholy he had so judiciously mingled with them. Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and...absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. In our present condition, which is a middle state, our minds are, as it were, chequered with truth... | |
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