 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
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 332 pages
...Horace); and perhaps it was the immature and immoderate love of them which stamped first, or rather chance that filled my head first with such chimes...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 parlor (I know not... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 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...filled my head first with such chimes of verse as nave never since left ringing there : for I remember when I began to read, and take some pleasure in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...still grow proportionably. But how this love came to be produced in me so earJy, is a hard question : I believe I can tell the particular little chance...filled my head first with such chimes of verse as nave never since left ringing there : for I remember when I began to read, and take some pleasure in... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 360 pages
...which he accumulated. Let him tell us himself what he felt on perusing first the ' Faery Queen' : — ' I believe 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 take some... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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...filled my head first with such chimes of verse as nave never since left ringing there: for I remember when I began to read, and take some pleasure in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...came to be produced in me so early, is a hard question: I believe I can tell the particular litlle chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as nave never since left ringing there : for I remember when I began to read, and take some pleasure in... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...alone, because they found I made a shift to do the usual exercise out of my own reading and observation I believe I can tell the particular little chance...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 mv mother's parlour (I know... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - Essays - 1868 - 240 pages
...diem Dixisse, Vixi : eras vel atra Nube polum, Pater, occupato, Vel sole puro." — CM. in. xxix. 41. the particular little chance that filled my head first...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 know... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 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... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1870 - 366 pages
...love of poetiy came to be produced in him, Cowley says, is a hard question ; but "I believe," he adds, "I can tell the particular little chance that filled...have never since left ringing there, for I remember there was wont to lie in my mother's pailour Spenser's works. This I happened to fall upon, and was... | |
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