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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift - Page 135
by Robert Shiells - 1753
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The Sunday at Home

1875 - 862 pages
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Cyclopædia of Literary and Scientific Anecdote: Illustrations of the ...

William Keddie - Literature - 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...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 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...
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Pilgrimages to English Shrines

Mrs. S. C. Hall - England - 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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The Poetical Works of John Milton: A New Edition Carefully Revised from the ...

John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...waited 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...
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Nelson's British Library, Volumes 9-17

English literature - 1855 - 272 pages
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

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...
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The history of the life of Thomas Ellwood, written by himself, with a suppl ...

Thomas Ellwood - 1855 - 330 pages
...London, he shewed 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 hy the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." But from this digression...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volume 1

William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 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 by the question you put to me at Chalfont ; which before I had not thought of." Thus, in this abode at Chalfont,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...waited 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...
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