...after EUwood had " modestly and freely" expressed his opinion, he adds, " I pleasantly said to him, Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found '.' " Nothing more was said on this subject at the time; but when, at a later period, in London, Milton...

..."Paradise Lost" to his friend Elwood the Quaker to peruse, who, on returning it to him observed, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise lost; but what hast thou to say of Paradise found?" It seems that, as his great epic was finished at Chalfont, so his second poem, a supplement to the former,...

...which I modestly and freely told him ; and, after some further discourse, 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 broke off that discourse, and fell upon...

...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 V He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse, then brake offthat discourse, and fell upon another...

...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 sate some time in a muse ; then brake off that discourse, and fell upon...

...Milton's deathless • and while he " modestly and freely " comit, he said to the blind poet, " Thou haat said much here of paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of paradise found ? " Milton made no reply then, but at a later period he showed him the " Paradise Regained," saying,...

...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 to Paradise found? He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse, then brake off that discourse...

...had shewn his larger work in manuscript. On returning it the former observed, ' Thou hast said much of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found ?' ' He made no answer,' continues Elwood, in his account of this conversation, ' but sat some time...

...house for him, first saw a complete copy of ' Paradise Lost,' and, having perused it, said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost ; but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?"71 Next year, when the danger of infection had ceased, he returned to Bunhill-fields, and designed...

...he liked, it. " I like it much," said the judicious Quaker : " thou hast written well, and said much of Paradise Lost; but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?" Milton made no answer, but sat musing for some time. When business afterwards drew Ellwood to London,...