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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. "
The Life of John Milton - Page 511
by Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 pages
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volume 1

William Howitt - 1856 - 596 pages
...however, Elwood visited him afterward in London, Milton showed him the Paradise Regained, saying, " This is owing to you, for you put it into my head...at Chalfont ; which before I had not thought of." Thus, in this abode at Chalfont, we hear the first mention of Paradise Lost, and to it we owe Paradise...
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The Wheat-sheaf

1857 - 452 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 it be true, as we suspect. that he was very...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets

William Howitt - 1857 - 736 pages
...however, Elwood visited him afterwards in London, Milton showed him the Paradise Regained, saying, " This is owing to you, for you put it into my head...question you put to me at Chalfont ; which before I haid not thought of." Thus, in this abode at Chalfont, we hear the first mention of Paradise Lost,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 203

1857 - 852 pages
...however, Elwood visited him afterwards in London, Milton shewed him the Paradise Regained, saying, 'This is owing to you, for you put it into my head...question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I hud not thought of." The village of Chalfont is in much the same condition as when Milton resided there...
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Mosaics

Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...called ' Paradise Regained,' and in a pleasant tone said to me, ' this is owing to you, for you put into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, what before I had not thought of.' " Longfellow's " Hyperion" was written to win a wife, and the expedient...
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Milton's Comus, with explanatory notes, and Life of Milton. [2 pt. The title ...

John Milton - 1860 - 134 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.' " From this narrative it appears that the Paradise Lost, if not actually completed, was far advanced...
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The brave old English confessors

English confessors - 1860 - 380 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...
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Life of Milton

David Masson - 1860 - 282 pages
...the sickness was over, Ellwood revisited Milton in London, he showed him Paradise Regained, saying, " This is owing to you ; for you put it into my head...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." Assuming this to be literally accurate, we should have to suppose Paradise Regained finished in 1667,...
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Notes and Queries

1860 - 568 pages
...the poet's return to London, Milton showed him Paradise Regained, and " in a pleasant tone said, ' This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question, you put to me at Chalfont.' " The author of a meritorious little book upon Milton's Early Reading, who came here from Bath many...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets

William Howitt - 1863 - 726 pages
...visited him afterwards in London, Milton showed him the Paradite Regained, saying, " This is owing toyou, for you put it into my head by the question you put...at Chalfont ; which before I had not thought of." Thus, in this abode at Chalfont, we hear the first mention of Paradise Lost, and to it we owe Paradise...
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