 | John Stoughton - 1882 - 394 pages
...when afterwards I went to wait on him there, which I seldom failed doing whenever my occasions drew me to London, he showed me his second poem, called...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.' " Ellwood was tutor in the Pennington family, and superintended the education of the young people.... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1882 - 392 pages
...when afterwards I went to wait on him there, which I seldom failed doing whenever my occasions drew me to London, he showed me his second poem, called...to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.1 " Ellwood was tutor in the Pennington family, and superintended the education of the young people.... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1912 - 198 pages
...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...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." 1 Though Milton himself was very impatient when he heard his new poem underrated — he never, by the... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Book Committee - 1912 - 342 pages
...then brake off that conversation, and fell upon another subject. When afterwards I went to see him in London, he showed me his second poem, called "Paradise...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." When I had spent seven years with Isaac Penington's family, I found in myself a disposition of mind... | |
 | John Milton - 1917 - 660 pages
...whenever my occasions drew me to London), he showed me his second " poem, called Paradise Regtined, and in a pleasant tone said to me, ' This Is " owing...Chalfont, which before I had not thought of. ' " * The inference from this passage may certainly be that the poem was at least begun in the cottage at Chalfont... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 672 pages
...afterwards, I went " to wait on him there (which I seldom failed of doing, whenever my occa" sions drew me to London), he showed me his second poem, called...Chalfont, which before " I had not thought of.' " * The inference from this passage may certainly be that the poem was at least begun in the cottage at Chalfont... | |
 | James Rendel Harris - 1920 - 98 pages
...Laodameia would rank with Lycidas?); for Ellwood says that, at a later date, when visiting Milton in London, "he showed me his second poem, called Paradise...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of ". It cannot be doubted that Ellwood 's question was prompted, not by any desire for the production... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - 1924 - 888 pages
...thou to say of " Paradise Found ?" ' When Milton handed him Paradise Regained in London, he added, 'This is owing to you, for you put it into my head...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.' Ellwood married in 1669, was busy in controversy, and seems to have had more than his share of the... | |
 | John Milton - 1925 - 102 pages
...afterwards I went to wait upon him then (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.' It has sometimes been assumed from this account that Paradise Regained was finished in 1666, in the... | |
 | James Holly Hanford - 1926 - 334 pages
...London in 1666 Milton showed him his second poem, saying, "This is owing to you ; for you put it in my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." Of Samson Agonistes Phillips says, "It was begun, finished, and printed after the publication of its... | |
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This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of. 
