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" This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of. "
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge - Page 310
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The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood: Or, an Account of His Birth ...

Thomas Ellwood, George Bowles - 1714 - 514 pages
...in a pleafant Tone faid to me, This if owing to you : for you put it into my ~Head, by the Quejlion you put to me at Chalfont ; which before I had not thought of. But from this Digrefllon I return to the Family I then lived in. We had not been long at home (about...
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The British Plutarch, Or Biographical Entertainer: Being a Select Collection ...

1762 - 414 pages
...in a pleafanttone laid to him, " this is owing to you, for you put it into my head, by thequeftion you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." In the year i672, he publifhed bis Artia Logics plenior Inftitutio ad Rami methodum. concinnata, London...
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Picturesque Views on the River Thames, from Its Source in ..., Volume 1

Samuel Ireland - 1792 - 386 pages
...voice faid to him, " This is owing *' to you, for you put it into my head, by « the. " the queftion you put to me at Chalfont, " which before I had not thought of." IN the neighbourhood of this village, it may not be improper to mention Beaconsfield, the refidence...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...in London, Milton shewed him his Paradise Regained, and in a pleasant tone of voice said to him, " This is owing to you ; for you put it into my head...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." ' It is commonly reported (says Bishop Newton) that Milton himself preferred this poem to Paradise...
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The life of Milton. To which are added Conjectures on the origin of Paradise ...

William Hayley - 1799 - 376 pages
...a pleafant tone faid to me, me, ' This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the qneflion you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." The perfonal regard of this ingenuous quaker for Milton, and his giving birth to a compofiiion of fuch....
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...London,) he showed me his second poem, called Paradise Regained, and, in a pleasant tone, said to me, this is owing to you, for you put it into my head...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." The term of Milton's residence at Chalfont has not been precisely specified; but from the circumstances...
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The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood, Or, An Account of His Birth ...

Thomas Ellwood - 1808 - 442 pages
...London) he shewed me his second poem, called "Paradise Regained;" and in a pleasant tone said to me, This is owing to you ; for you put it into my head...me at Chalfont ; which before I had not thought of. But from this digression I return to the family I then lived in. We had not been long at home (about...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...London,) he showed me Ins second poem, called Paradise Regained, and in a pleasant tone said to me, this is owing to you, for you put it into my head...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." The term of Milton's residence at Chalfont has not been precisely specified; but from the circumstances...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...pleasant tone, said to me, ' This is owing to you, for you put it into my head, by the question your put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." The personal regard of this ingenuous quaker for Milton, and his giving birth to a composition of such...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...him in London, Milton showed him his ' Paradise Regained ; ' and in a pleasant tone said to him, " This is owing to you, for you put it into my head...me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of." In the year 1672, his ' Artis Logica plenior Institutio ad Petri Rami methodum concinnata ' made it's...
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