 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
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 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 - 1891 - 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... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1891 - 728 pages
...so easily is a hard question. I believe I can tell the particular 19 HORACE, OJts, ITT, 29. 41 ff. little chance that filled my head first with such...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 Logie Robertson - English literature - 1894 - 388 pages
...Essays — Of Myself — he tells with the unaffected frankness of Montaigne how he became a poet : " 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 628 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 take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlour (I know not... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 624 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 take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlour (I know not... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 638 pages
...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... | |
 | Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division, to her lute. I KING HENRY IV. iii. I. I BELIEVE I can tell the particular little chance...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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1896 - 450 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 to take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlor (I know... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - English essays - 1896 - 324 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 1 Odes, HI. xxix. 41. chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there. For I remember when I... | |
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