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See also:ELLWOOD, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1639—1714) , See also:English author, was See also:born at Crowell, in See also:Oxfordshire, in 1639. He is chiefly celebrated for his connexion with See also:Milton, and the See also:principal facts of his See also:life are related in a very interesting autobiography, which contains much See also:information as to his intercourse with the poet. While he was still See also:young his See also:father removed to See also:London, where Thomas became acquainted with a Quaker See also:family named Pennington, and was led to join the Society of See also:Friends, a connexion which subjected him to much persecution. It was through the Penning-tons that he was introduced in 1662 to Milton in the capacity of Latin reader. He spent nearly every afternoon in the poet's See also:house in Jewin See also:Street, until the intercourse was interrupted by an illness which compelled him to go to the See also:country. After a See also:period of imprisonment in the old See also:Bridewell See also:prison and in Newgate for Quakerism, Ellwood resumed his visits to Milton, who was now residing at a house his friend had taken for him at Chalfont St See also:Giles. In 1665 Ellwood was again arrested and imprisoned in See also:Aylesbury See also:gaol. When he visited Milton after his See also:release the poet gave him the See also:manuscript of the See also:Paradise Lost to read. On returning the manuscript Ellwood said, " See also:Thou hast said much here of Paradise lost; but what hast thou to say of Paradise found? " and when Milton See also:long after-wards in London showed him Paradise Regained, it was with the remark, " This is owing to you, for you put it into my See also:head at Chalfont." Ellwood was the friend of See also:Fox and See also:Penn, and was the author of several polemical See also:works in See also:defence of the Quaker position, of which See also:Forgery no See also:Christianity (1674) and The See also:Foundation of See also:Tithes Shaken (1678) deserve mention. His Sacred Histories of the Old and New Testaments appeared in 1705 and 1709. He also published some volumes of poems, among them a Davideis in five books. He died on the 1st of See also:March 1714.
The See also:History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood: written by his own See also:hand (1714) has been many times reprinted.
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