| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...London), he showed me his second poem, called ' Paradise Regained,' and 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 thought of.'" The term of Milton's residence... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 508 pages
...printed by Simi Samfon Agoniftes.92 The former poem he mowed to his friend Elwood. " This," faid he, "is owing to you, for you put it into my head, by the queftions you put to me at Chalfont, which otherwife, I had not thought of." When it was accounted... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...London), he showed me his second poem, called ' Paradise Regained,' and in a pleasant tone, said to me, ' This is owing to you, for you put it into my head at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.' Brief notices of Aubrey, Wood, Rymer, Flarel, and... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 428 pages
...having ealled on the poet after his return to London, was shown hy him this poem, with the remark, " This is owing to you ; for you put it into my head hy the question yon put to me at Chalfont" He is said to have written it in a state of uninterrnpted... | |
| 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 by the question you put to me at Chalfont*, which before I had not thought of." The secular literature of all the peoples... | |
| Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...London, he showed me his second poem, called PARADISE GAINED ; arid, in a pleasant tone, said, to me, ' 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." ' Golden days were these for the young Latin... | |
| 1853 - 442 pages
...London, he showed me his second poem, called PARADISE GAINED ; and, in a pleasant tone, said, to me, ' This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfontf which before I had not thought of." ' Golden days were these for the young Latin... | |
| William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pages
...Milton, who showed him the poem of Paradise Regained; and in a pleasant tone said to his friend, " This is owing to you ; for you put it into my head...at Charlfont, which before I had not thought of." JONATHAN SWIFT. In one of his letters, Pope gives the following illustration of Dean Swift's eccentricity... | |
| 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 question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." 78 His last poetical offspring was his favourite.... | |
| Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1854 - 608 pages
...London wrote ' Paradise Regained,' and Milton's House 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... | |
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