 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...to wait upon him (which I seldom failed of doing whenever my occasions led me to London), he showed me his second poem, called ' Paradise Regained,' and...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...the 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, by the question yon put to me at Chalfont, which, before I had not thought ot" The first edition of the Paradise Lost... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...having the hitter immortal poem, we have Ellwood's subsequent authority : — " Soon after ho showed mo his second Poem, called ' Paradise Regained,' and in a pleasant tone said to mo — ' This is owing to you : for you put it into my bead by the question you put to me at Chalfont,... | |
 | 1865 - 976 pages
...after by his friend, he brought out " Paradise Begained," and, in a pleasant tone, said to Elwood, "This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by your question." PIUNCE ALBEBT. — During the time that Queen Victoria and the Prince wore visiting... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 328 pages
...whenever any occasion drew me to London, he showed me his second poem, called ' PARADISE EEGAINED/ and in a pleasant tone said to me, 'This is owing...for you put it into my head by the question you put lo me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.' "* Thus at the close of 1666 Milton had, against... | |
 | 1882 - 620 pages
...afterwards, when calling on Milton in his London home, the poet said, as he showed him " Paradise Regained," "This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put me at Chalfont." In the spring of the following year, 1665, Thomas Ellwood was imprisoned by order... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pages
...on him there (which I seldom failed of doing, whenever my occasions drew me to Lon•ion), he showed me his second poem, called " Paradise Regained," and,...This is owing to you, for you put it into my head at Chalfont ; which before I had not thought of. " — Autobiography. [RICHARD KNOLLES. 1540 — 1610.]... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 504 pages
...failed of doing, whenever my "occasions drew me to London), he showed me his second ; VOL. II. B " poem, called Paradise Regained, and in a pleasant tone said " to me, ' This is owing to you ; tor you put it into my head " by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I " had not... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...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 in a pleasant tone VOL. II. B " said to me, ' This is owing to you ; for you put it into my head " by the question you... | |
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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... 
