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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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The poetical works of John Milton, with illustr. by E.H. Corbould and J. Gilbert

John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...time ; but when, at a later period, in London, Milton showed him the Paradise Regained, he added, " This is owing to you, for you put it into my head...Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." The first edition of the Paradise Lost was published in 1665, the author receiving, as is well known, the...
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The Children's History of the Society of Friends: Chiefly Compiled from ...

Willem Sewel - 1864 - 210 pages
...afterwards, the poem was completed, Milton showed it to Thomas Ellwood, saying, " This is owing to you ; you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which otherwise I had not thought of." And now I have come to the end of my history for the present, though...
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The Children's History of the Society of Friends: Chiefly Compiled from ...

Willem Sewel - 1864 - 202 pages
...the poem was completed, Milton showed it to Thomas Ellwood, saying, " This is owing to you, you put into my head, by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which otherwise I had not thought of." And now I have come to the end of my history for the present, though...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton with a Life of the Author: Preliminary ...

John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...in London, Milton showed him his " Paradise Regained ;" anil, in a pleasant tone, said to him, — "This is owing to you; for you put it into my head...question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I hod nob thought of." Milton, in the opening of this poem, speaking of his Muse, as prompted to tell...
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The Christian world magazine (and family visitor).

1871 - 970 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.' " You think of these things as you stand at the door of the cottage where you can imagine the poet...
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Margaret Smith's journal. Old portraits and modern sketches

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 514 pages
...doing whenever my occasions drew me to London, he showed me his second poem, called PARAD1SE GA1NED ; 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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On Both Sides of the Sea: A Story of the Commonwealth and the Restoration. A ...

Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1867 - 524 pages
...afterwards, Mr. Milton showed him another poem called Paradise Regained, saying, in a pleasant tone, " This is owing to you ; for you put it into my head...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." So that, seeing, besides all he had already done to the marvel of Europe, Mr. Milton had these wonderful...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed a Biography of the ...

John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pages
...wait on him there (which I seldom failed of doing, whenever my occasions drew me to London) he shewed me his second Poem, called Paradise Regained ; and...me at Chalfont ; which before I had not thought of. But from this digression I return to the family I then lived in." In 1673, a second edition, in small...
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On Both Sides of the Sea: A Story of the Commonwealth and the ..., Volume 2

Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1868 - 520 pages
...afterwards, Mr. Milton showed him another poem called " Paradise Regained," saying, in a pleasant tone " This is owing to you; for you put it into my head...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." So that, seeing, besides all he had already done to the marvel of Europe, Mr. Milton had these wonderful...
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Singers and Songs of the Church: Being Biographical Sketches of the Hymn ...

Josiah Miller - 1869 - 668 pages
...Lost.' Ellwood says that, visiting the poet in London afterwards, ' he showed me his second poem, " Paradise Regained ; " and in a pleasant tone said...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." ' In the year 1667 the poet, having returned to London, obtained a licence to publish his great poem,...
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