 | John Milton - 1872 - 104 pages
...name of Ellwood, the MS. of the Paradise Lost. An observation of this friend, " Thou hast said much of Paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise found ? " seems to have suggested the subject, and when, in 1667, Ellwood paid a visit to Milton in London,... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...home, and had set myself to read it, I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled Paradise Lost. After I had, with- the best attention, read...say of Paradise Found ?' 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...Himself; " and, after some farther discourse of it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found ?" He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse ; then broke off that discourse, and fell upon another subject." When Ellwood... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...He gave the manuscript to Elwood to read. The young Quaker appreciated it, but added pleasantly, " Thou hast said much here of ' Paradise Lost,' but what hast thou to say of ' Paradise Found ' ? " This hint, Milton afterwards told his friend, gave birth to the idea of " Paradise Regained."... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...book, with due acknowledgment of " the favour he had done me in communicating it to me. He " asked how I liked it, and what I thought of it ; which I..."Lost; but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found V He " made me no answer, but sate some time in a muse, then brake " off that discourse and fell upon... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1874 - 446 pages
...that the author and his heirs received but eighteen pounds for the grandest poem of our literature. hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?" This question suggested to Milton the writing of Paradise Regained. By general consent the second epic... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Authors, English - 1874 - 332 pages
...to whom Milton exhibited the MS. of the earlier poem. ' Thou (the speaker was Ellwood, the Quaker) hast said much here of Paradise lost ; but what hast thou to say of Paradise found ? ' It is inferior to its predecessor, but, as is not unusual, its author valued it as of equal if... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1874 - 530 pages
...return of the Paradise Lost, which the poet had lent him to read in manuscript: 'Thou hast said much of paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of paradise found ?' In 1 705 be published the first part of Sacred History, or the Historical Parts of the Old Testament;... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...'• Paradise Lost" After I had, with the best attention, read it through, I made him another viait, and returned him his book, with due acknowledgment...say of Paradise Found ? " He made me no answer, but sat gome time in a muse ; then brake off that discourse, and fell upon another subject. After the sickness... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 412 pages
...attention, read it through, I made him another visit, and returned him his book, with due acknowledgment for the favour he had done me, in communicating it to...say of Paradise found ! ' He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse ; then brake off that discourse, and fell upon another subject." — After... | |
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Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found? 
