John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2519 John Milton 1608-1674 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2519 |
| AUTHOR: | John Milton (1608–1674) |
| QUOTATION: | 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, Fix’d fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand’ring mazes lost. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 555. |