 Their song was partial, but the harmony (What could it less when spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) Others apart sat on a hill...  Paradise lost, a poem - Pàgina 41per John Milton - 1831Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John McVickar - 1836 - 260 pàgines
...which Milton, evidently with a view to their condemnation, puts into the mouth of fallen angels. ' Others apart sat on a hill retired In thoughts more...providence, foreknowledge, will and fate — Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Vain wisdom all, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 370 pàgines
...particularly charmed with the parody of those beautiful lines of Milton. " The song was partial, but the harmony (What could it less, when spirits immortal...and took with ravishment The thronging audience." There's a parenthesis for you ! The parenthesis it seems is out of fashion, and perhaps the modems... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 380 pàgines
...particularly charmed with the parody of those beautiful lines of Milton. " The song was partial, but the harmony (What could it less, when spirits immortal...and took with ravishment The thronging audience." There's a parenthesis for you ! The parenthesis it seems is out of fashion, and perhaps the moderns... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pàgines
...; and complain that fate Free virtue should inthral to force or chance. Their song was partial; but the harmony, What could it less when spirits immortal...will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute : And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pàgines
...battcl; and complain that fate Free virtue should inthral to force or chance. Their song was partial; but the harmony, What could it less when spirits immortal...will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute : épaisses légions Rejoignent; par des faits d'armes, d'un bout de l'Етруrée à l'autre,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pàgines
...batlcl; and complain thai fate Free virtue should inthral to force or chance. Their song was partial; but the harmony, What could it less when spirits immortal...reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fale; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolutc : épaisses légions se joignent; par des fails... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1837 - 590 pàgines
...describing Satan and his cursed crew, he appoints to them as a punishment the exercises of the school. — " Others apart sat on a hill retired In thoughts more...high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Of good and evil much they argued, then Of happiness and final misery, Passion, and apathy, and glory,... | |
 | George Rogers - 1837 - 204 pàgines
...reasoning powers of fallen angels in their dreary pandemonium. . " Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence,...will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." The mist of uncertainty, nevertheless, still... | |
 | 1838 - 586 pàgines
...and complain that fate Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance. Their song was partial ; but the harmony (What could it less when Spirits immortal...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 ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pàgines
...complain that fate 550 Free virtue should inthral to force or chance. Their song was partial ; but the harmony, (What could it less when spirits immortal...sweet, (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) 556 Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence,... | |
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