 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
 | George Rogers - 1839 - 396 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... | |
 | 1839 - 438 pàgines
...discussions immediately after their apostacy and expulsion from heaven. 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 wand'ring mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pàgines
...and complain that fate Free virtue should enthral to force or chance. Their song was partial ; but s the fishy shore ; or treasures up The plumage, rising full, to form the bed Of luxury. retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 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...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... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pàgines
...fall By doom of battle — ' or those with whom the moral philosopher sympathises yet more — who ' Sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and...will and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — ' or expatiate over the muster-roll of their chiefs, in which all the splendours of the... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pàgines
...when spirits immortal sing ?) 4# PARADISE LOST. [BooK II. Suspended hell, and took with ravishment 555 The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet, (For...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 - 1843 - 444 pàgines
...battle; 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." The latter groups are exquisitely conceived,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 448 pàgines
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 | John Milton - 1849 - 838 pàgines
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 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pàgines
...and complain that fate Free virtue should enthral 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 thought* more elevate , and reason'd high Of Providence , foreknowledge , will , and fate... | |
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