...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...

..."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?" Milton "made [him] no Answer but sate sometime in a Muse; then brake off that Discourse, and fell upon...

...sometime after 1663, and, having read it, reports that he remarked to Milton: 'Thou hast said much of paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of paradise found?', a comment to which Milton is reported to have alluded when presenting Ellwood with a copy of Paradise...

...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?'" He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse; then brake off that discourse, and fell upon another...