 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
 | J. H. Lobban - English essays - 1896 - 362 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... | |
 | Yarnall - 1897 - 104 pages
...Speaking of his love of the poets he says: ') How this love came to be produced in me is a hard question. I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there, for I remember when I began to read... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 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 parlor (I know not... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1898 - 448 pages
...motives of his intellectual life : " I believe I can tell the particular little chance that tilled 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 know... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1898 - 258 pages
...composed, however, both religious and secular poems. He tells us himself how he became a poet. 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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 478 pages
...acknowledged their debt to him. The passage from Cowley's essay "On Myself" is familiar: "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 read any book but of devotion... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 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... | |
 | Arthur William Fox - Bachelors - 1899 - 514 pages
...allegiance. " But how this love came to be produced in me so early," he says, " is a hard question. 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 446 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 460 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 parlor (I know... | |
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