 | 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... | |
 | 1853 - 442 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...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 reader,... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1854 - 608 pages
...answer; hut on his return to 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... | |
 | 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 by the question you asked me at Charlfont, which before I had not thought of." JONATHAN SWIFT. In one of his letters, Pope... | |
 | Thomas Ellwood - 1855 - 330 pages
...it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to eay of Paradise Found ? " He made me no answer, but sat...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...upon him in London, Milton showed him his " Paradise Regained," and in a pleasant tone said to him, " This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put me atChalfont, which before I had not thought of." It is commonly reported, that Milton himself preferred... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...having called on the poet after his return to London, was shown by him this poem, with the remark, " This is owing to you ; for you put it into my head by tho question you put to me at Chalfont." He is said to have written it in a state of uninterrupted... | |
 | 1857 - 754 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 by the question you put to me at Chalfout, which before I had not thought of V The village of Chalfont is in much the same condition... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...upon him in London, Milton showed him his " Paradise Regained," and in a pleasant tone said to him, " This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." It is commonly reported, that Milton himself preferred... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...wait on him there (which I seldom failed of doing whenever my occasions drew me to London), he showed me his second poem, called 'Paradise Regained,' and...pleasant tone, said to me, ' This is owing to you, for yon put it into my bead at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.' Brief notices of Aubrey, Wood,... | |
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He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse; then brake off that discourse, and fell upon another subject. After the sickness was over, and the city well cleansed, and become safely habitable again, he returned thither. And when afterwards I went... 
