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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.