Evidence: | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabriel are discoursing over the repast Eve had set before them, Milton, to put our minds at ease as to the ill consequences of such dawdling, kindly tells us - the meal consisting wholly of fruits
"No fear lest dinner cool!" -
In "Paradise Regained", however, there is an address from the Devil to our Saviour worth its weight in gold - meeting him in the Wilderness, & affecting not to know him, he begins a conversation thus -
"Sir, by what ill chance &c -
Now that [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] appears to me the very acme of burlesque - and sets me a shouting every time it comes into my head. - My two dear grown-ups, Miss Wilbraham, & Miss Eliza, who as well as me read [underlined] both [end underlining] Paradises last winter doat upon [twice underlined] Sir [end underlining] as much as I do: - and whenever we prate over fruit luncheons, apologise for it by saying - "No fear lest luncheon cool".' |
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Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Oct 1803 and 1 Sep 1804 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Cheshire specific address: Delamere Lodge |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Wilbraham |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | daughter of MP |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Milton |
Title: | Paradise Regained |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17541 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Sarah Harriet Burney | |
Editor: | Lorna J. Clark | |
Title: | Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, The | |
Place of Publication: | Athens GA / London | |
Date of Publication: | 1997 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 58 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Sarah Harriet Burney, Lorna J. Clark (ed.), Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, The (Athens GA / London, 1997), p. 58, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17541, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
letter to Charlotte Francis, spring or summer 1804. Burney was governess to the family of Cheshire MP George Wilbraham. Miss Wilbraham and Miss Elizabeth were adults. |
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