| Charles Mackay - 1840 - 426 pages
...found ?" Two years afterwards Milton showed his friend his Paradise Regained. " This,'' said he, " is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which otherwise 1 had not thought of." Returning again to the Thames we find ourselves within sight of Windsor,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...Milton showed * Paradise Regained' to Elwood, 'This,' said he, ' is owing to yon ; for you put it in my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which otherwise I had not thought of.' His last poetical offspring was his favourite. He could not, as Elwood... | |
| William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1843 - 496 pages
...when afterwards I went to wait on him there, which I seldom failed of doing whenever my occasions drew me to London, he showed me his second poem, called...at Chalfont ; which before I had not thought of.' But from this digression I return to the family I then lived in. We had not been long at home, about... | |
| 1847 - 452 pages
...London, he showed me his second poem, called 'Paradise Regained ; ' and, in a pleasant tone, said, ' This is owing to you, for you put it into my head...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.' " I will favor thee, friend Editor, with a modicum of Thomas Ell wood's poetry, to vary a little my... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...Milton showed ' Paradise Regained' to Elwood, ' This,' said he, ' is owing to you ; for you put it in my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which otherwise I had not thought of.' His last poetical offspring was his favourite. He could not, as Elwood... | |
| Hugh James Rose - 1848 - 530 pages
...London, and he showed me then his second poem, called Paradise Regained, and in a pleasant tone said, This is owing to you, for you put it into my head...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." Ellwood died in 1713. He was the author of a Sacred History of the Old and New Testament, 2 vols, fol.;... | |
| Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1850 - 324 pages
...poet, and a pendant to his greater work. Milton made no answer ; but on his return to London wrote ' Paradise Regained,' and in a pleasant tone said to...at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.'* We stood beneath the over-hanging beams, where a tall man could not more than stand erect. We noted... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 324 pages
...doing whenever my occasions drew me to London, he showed me his second poem, called PARADISE GAINED ; and, in a pleasant tone, said to me,' This is owing...at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.'" Golden days were these for the young Latin reader, even if it be true, as we suspect, that he was himself... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 326 pages
...doing whenever my occasions drew me to London, he showed me his second poem, called PARADISE GAINED ; and, in a pleasant tone, said to me, ' This is owing...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.' " Golden days were these for the young Latin reader, even if it be true, as we suspect, that he was... | |
| John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...Paradise Regained, he added, " This is owing to you, for you put it into my head, by the question yon put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." The first edition of the Paradise Lost was published in 1 Cfi.r., the author receiving, as is well known,... | |
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