It is conceived in perfect harmony with the facts of the case: the great age which the Evangelist attained: the mystery which shrouded his death: the persecutions which had overtaken the Church: the heresies which already threatened to disturb it; but Mr. Browning has given to St. John a foreknowledge of that age of philosophic doubt in which its very foundations would be shaken; and has made him the exponent of his own belief-already hinted in "Easter Eve" and "Bishop Blougram:" to be fully set forth in "The Ring and the Book" and "La Saisiaz"-that such doubt is ordained for the maturer mind, as the test of faith, and its preserver.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
More than that, if it should ever be known-and it was liable to be known at any moment-the deliberate foreknowledge with which she went to Millenbeck, she would never be allowed to remain another hour under the roof of Barn Elms: of that much she was perfectly sure.
"Throckmorton"
Molly Elliot Seawell
His eyes and the clasp of his hand made her shudder and grow cold, with some swift, ominous foreknowledge of distant toil and sorrow and joy.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland