...had done me, in communicating it to me. He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it,«iiich I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further...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...

...was that excellent poem which he " entitled PARADISE LOST. After I had, with the best atten" tion, read it through, I made him another visit, and returned...Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?7 " He made no answer, but sat some time in a muse ; then " brake off that discourse, and fell...

...his judgment, a judgment not preserved, and not indispensable — the Quaker made his famous speech, "Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise found?" Milton afterwards told Ellwood that to this casual question was due his writing Paradise Regained....

...1670. Ellwood states that after reading the manuscript of' PL late in 1665 he had observed to Milton, "Thou hast said much here of paradise lost; but what hast thou to say of paradise found?" To this statement Milton reportedly made no answer but "sat some time in a muse." Ellwood further reports...

...returning a manuscript copy of Paradise Lost to Milton, the young Quaker Thomas Ellwood reportedly quipped: "Thou hast said much here of 'Paradise Lost'; but what hast thou to say of 'Paradise Found'?" Ellwood credits his pleasantry with having inspired Milton to write Paradise Regained.1 Be that as...

...he entided Paradise Lost'. When Ellwood returned it, and Milton asked him his opinion, he 'pleasandy said to him, "Thou hast said much here of Paradise...Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?" ' Milton made no answer, but some time later 'he showed me his second poem, called "Paradise Regained"...

...suggest that Paradise Regained is a response to something other and more formidable than Thomas Ellwood's "Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?"7 Milton not only orchestrated a variety of sacred themes, rewriting the Book of Job and the...

...Paradise Lost. It was at Chalfont St. Giles that Ellwood had offered his na1ve criticism of the epic, 'Thou hast said much here of paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of paradise found ?' Milton, it will be recalled, did not answer this insensitive question, 'but sat some time in a muse',...

...movement can be contrived in a mere dialogue such as "Paradise Regained"; it * Thou hast said much of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found' He made no answer, but sat some time in a muse. . . . lacks the grandiose mise-en-scene and the shifting splendours...

...intention, read it through," he went back to Milton and was asked how he liked the poem; then Ellwood "modestly but freely told him: and after some further...lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise found?" Milton "made [him] no Answer but sate sometime in a Muse; then brake off that Discourse, and fell upon...