...ravishment The thronging audience. In 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, 555 554. Suspended hell,] The effect of...

...horror and melancholy he had so judiciously mingled with them. Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence,...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...

...barren speculations, like the amusements of Milton's fallen angels, who Apart sat on a bill retired In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence,...free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes bit. But we shall not offend the phrenologists by applying to them the line that follows:...

...barren speculations, like the amusements of Milton's fallen angels, who Apart sat on a hill retired In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence,...free-will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. But we shall not offend the phrenologists by applying to them the line that follows:...

...dil&cult subject, the writers of which have resembled Milton's own metaphysical angels, who " reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate,...absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost." Having referred to some of the decrees of God in the Scripture, which are put conditionally, he says,...

...sense) Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providenee, d amaz'd, he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus eries ; See the furies Of good and evil mueh they argu'd then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory...

...substance or profit." Milton has made metaphysics the idle sport of the fallen angels : Others apart, sate on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate ; and...high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate — Vain wisdom all, and vain philosophy. Paradise Loxt, book 2. Telcmachus (of Bishop Fenelon) Is...

...would have put you in mind of Milton's Devils, whom he represents as at times starving with cold : " Others apart, sat on a hill, retir'd, In thoughts...free-will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end in wandering mazes lost." PA BADISE LOST. But I assure you, my friend, that we were sometimes like the...

...prosecution of the subject : " Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate ;...Free-Will, Foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." We are next introduced to another topic, which, strange to say, seems to have...

...the sense,) 556 The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet 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; 560 And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil...