I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse, as have never since left ringing there: for I remember, when I began to read, and to take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlour (I... Spenser: Selections - Page 27by Edmund Spenser - 1923 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
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