 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...by the question of a Quaker friend, who, after reading the first, said, " Thou hast said much here of ' Paradise Lost,' but what hast thou to say of 'Paradise Found?'" I might as well try to give you an idea of the grandeur of Mont Blanc, by showing a few rocks from... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...Paradise Lost." Ellwood adds, that on returning it he " pleasantly said " to him, ' ' Thou hast said much of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found ? " The poet did not answer the question ; but meeting him some time afterwards in London, showed his... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost ; but what hast thou to say of Paradise...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 104 pages
...the 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...Life of 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...He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse ; then broke off that discourse, and fell upon another subject." When Ellwood afterwards waited on... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...; and, after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1874 - 504 pages
...and, after some further ' discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast 'said much here of Paradise Lost ; but what hast thou to say 'of Paradise Found?' He made me no answer, but sate some time in a muse, then brake off that discourse and fell 'upon another subject. After the sickness... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1874 - 530 pages
...the 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;... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1874 - 446 pages
...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... | |
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I modestly but freely told him : and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, Thou hast said much here of paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of paradise found... 
