Ellora

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 306–307

Ellora, a village in the Nizami's dominions, 13 miles NW. of Aurungabad. It is celebrated for its gave him the manuscript of Paradise Lost to read, and when returning it Ellwood said, 'Thou hast said much of "Paradise Lost," but what hast thou to say of "Paradise Found?"' When Milton handed him Paradise Regained in London, he added, '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.' Ellwood married in 1669, was busy in controversy, and seems to have had more than his share of the persecutions that fell upon the Quakers almost till his death in 1713. Of his many tracts, treatises, epistles, and even poems, only his Autobiography is now interesting, and that not for his own sake, but because he crossed the orbit of almost our greatest poet. An excellent and accessible edition is that in Professor Henry Morley's 'Universal Library' (1885).

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