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" 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 27
by Edmund Spenser - 1923 - 208 pages
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Elements of Intellectual Philosophy: Designed for a Text Book and Private ...

Hubbard Winslow - History - 1853 - 432 pages
...thus describes the manner in which he came to be what he was : " I remember when I began to read, and take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlor—I know not by what accident, for she herself never in her life read any other book...
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 356 pages
...language, but of comprehension of things, as to * " I believe," says he, in his essay on himself, " I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verses as have never since left ringing there. For I remember, when I began to read and to take some...
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there : for I remember when I began to read, and take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlour, (I know not by what accident, for she herself never in her life read any book but...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...still grow proportionably. But how this love came to be produced in me so early, is a hard question: I believe I can tell the particular little chance...never since left ringing there : for I remember when I began to read, and take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlour, (I know...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...still grow proportionably. But, how this love came to be produced in me so early, is a hard question : I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of veree, as have never since left ringing there : for I remember, when I begaii to read, aud take some...
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Elements of Intellectual Philosophy: Designed for a Text-book and for ...

Hubbard Winslow - Philosophy - 1856 - 440 pages
...thus describes the manner in which he came to be what he was : " I remember when I began to read, and take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlor — I know not by what accident, for she herself never in her life read any other book...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...still grow proportionably. But how this love catne to be produced in me so early, is a hard question : I believe I can tell the particular little chance...filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights, and plants, and monsters, and brave houses,...
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Lectures on the British Poets, Volume 1

Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...simplicity greatly contrasted with the overwrought fancy of his verse,— he says, " 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 know not by what accident, for she herself never in her life read any book but...
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Biographical Sketches of Eminent British Poets: Chronologically Arranged ...

English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...pursuit. Cowlcy has given an account of what first led him to cultivate the poetical art. He says : " I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head with such chimes of verses, as have never left ringing there. I remember when I began to read, and...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...still grow proportionably. But how this love came lobe produced in me so early, is a hard question : I believe I can tell the particular little chance...never since left ringing there : for I remember when I began to read, and take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlour, (I know...
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