 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...returned thither; and when afterwards I went to wait upon him, (which I seldom failed of doing when my occasions led me to London), he showed me his second...infer that it extended from the June or the July of 1 665 to the March or April of the following year. It is not exactly ascertained when the "Paradise... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...in a pleasant tone said to me, ' This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the questioa you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not...infer that it extended from the June or the July of 3665 to the March or April of the following year. It is not exactly ascertained when the " Paradise... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...Milton made no reply then, but at a later period he showed him the " Paradise Regained," saying, " This is owing to you ; for you put it into my head...Chalfont*, which before I had not thought of." The secular literature of all the peoples of earth, ancient or modern, does not furnish more than four... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...whenever my occasions drew me to London, he showed me his second poem, called PARADISE GAINED ; arid, in a pleasant tone, said, to me, ' This is owing to...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." ' Golden days were these for the young Latin reader, even it be true, as we suspect, that he was very... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...published in 1670. Milton presented a copy to Elwood, and said, "This is owmg 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." In the same year appeared the " History of England" and " Samson Agonistes."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 pages
...reason to repent his purchase. When Milton showed ' Paradise Regained ' to Ellwood, " This," said he, " is owing to you ; for you put it into my head by the...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." 78 His last poetical offspring was his favourite. He could not, as Ellwood relates, endure to hear... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1854 - 608 pages
...at, Chalfont. ' in a pleasant tone said to me, This is owing to you, for you put it into my head hy the question you put to me 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...When 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... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 518 pages
...when, afterwards, I went to wait on him there, — which I seldom failed of doing whenever my occasion led me to London, — -he showed me his second poem,...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." particulars, that in 1665 the Paradise Lost was completed ; and that in that year, at Chalfont, he... | |
 | Thomas Ellwood - 1855 - 330 pages
...Regained, and in a pleasant tone said to me, " This is owing to you, for you put it into my head hy the question you put to me 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 long been at home, about... | |
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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. 
