 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
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 558 pages
...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 (o lie in my mother's parlor (I know not by what accident, for she herself never in her life read any... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1883 - 544 pages
...still grows 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 to take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlour (I know... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - English literature - 1884 - 498 pages
...produced in me so early is a hard question. I believe I can tell the particular little chance which filled my head first with such chimes of verse as...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 parlor (I know... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...because they found I made a shift to do the usual exercise out of my own reading and observation.12 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 my mother's parlour 13 (I... | |
 | Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant - English language - 1886 - 552 pages
...printed by Sprat in 1668. ) l 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 to take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my Mother's Parlour (I know... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...still grow proportionably. But, how this love came to be produced iu me so early, is a hard question : of him, that there is not a point in the compass...Next to Sir Andrew in the club-room sits Captain Se 1 remember, when I began to read, and to take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 462 pages
...Myself^!, he gives us some precious reminiscences of the earliest motives of his intellectual life : " I believe I can tell the particular little chance...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 know... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 440 pages
...Myself," he gives us some precious reminiscences of the earliest motives of his intellectual life : " I believe I can tell the particular little chance...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 know... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 454 pages
...Myself," he gives us some precious reminiscences of the earliest motives of his intellectual life : " I believe I can tell the particular little chance...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 know... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1890 - 730 pages
...still grow proportionably. But how this love came to be produced in me so easily 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 to take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlour (I know... | |
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