 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, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.  Wisdom, Wit, and Allegory. Selected from "The Spectator" - Side 213af Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 318 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 sider
...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, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, 560 And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 sider
...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, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, 560 And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 sider
...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 j Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge ahsolute; And found no end in wand 'ring mazes lost. Of good... | |
 | Longinus - 1800 - 238 sider
...difficulty of making advancements in such unfathomable points. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute ; And found no end in wand'ring mazes lost, i Pyrr/n,... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 sider
...more sweet 555 (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, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, 560 And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil... | |
 | 1803 - 402 sider
...themselves a new disquiet amidst their very amusements ; he could not properly have described the sports of condemned spirits, without that cast of horror...high " Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, .• Fixt fete, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, " And found no end in wandering maxes lost." In our... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 sider
...horror and melancholy he has so judiciously mingled with them. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. In our present... | |
 | Theophilus Lindsey - 1805 - 338 sider
...his inhabitants of Pandsemonium, who reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. But the instances of the two memorable characters you have produced are much to our purpose, in so... | |
 | Ely Bates - 1806 - 445 sider
...that endeavoured to divert their griefs by musical strains, and various feats of war and agility, " Sat on a hill, retired, In thoughts more elevate,...free-will, fore-knowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argu'd then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion... | |
 | John Evans - 1807 - 344 sider
...Others apart, sat on a hill retir'd, " In thoughts more elevate, ainl reasonid high, " Of provktance, fore-knowledge, will, and fate; " Fix'd fate; free-will,...absolute, " And found no end — in wandering mazes lost !" To short-sighted mortals, with all their boasted wisdom, the subject must appear dark, and in many... | |
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