 I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found every where there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling...  The Works of Abraham Cowley - Page 229by Abraham Cowley - 1806Full view - About this book
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 510 pages
...parlour—I know not by what accident, for she herself never in her life read any book but of devotion—but there was wont to lie Spenser's works. This I happened...giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found everywhere—though my understanding had little to do with all this—and by degrees with the tinkling... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 516 pages
...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 of devotion—but there was wont to lie Spenser's works. This I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...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 book but...monsters, and brave houses which I found everywhere these (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and by degrees with the tinkling of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlour, (1 know not by what accident, for she hrrseir" never in her life read any book but of devotion ;) but there WHS wont to lie Spenser's works; this I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely deliffhteJ with the... | |
 | Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant - 1873 - 528 pages
...in it, there was wont to lie in my Mother's Parlour (I know not by what accident, for she her self never in her life read any Book but of Devotion), but there was wont to lie Spencers Works : this I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1877 - 558 pages
...of poetry. There was wont to lie in his mother's parlor, " I know not," he says, " by what accident, for she herself never in her life read any book but...upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of knights and giants and monsters and 370 Abraham Cowley. [May, brave houses, which I found everywhere... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...some pleasure in it, there was wout to he in my mother's parlour — • I know not by what accident, for she herself never in her life read any book but of devotion— but there was wont to he Spender's works ; this I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 pages
...never in her life read any book but of devotion), but there was wont to lie Spenser's works. This 1 happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, :md monsters, and brave (beautiful) houses (or palaces), which I found everywhere there (though my... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...was wont to he in my mother's parlour— I know not by what accident, for she herself never in tier life read any book but of devotion — but there was wont to lie Speni^er's works ; this 1 happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the etori^s of the... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...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 book but of devotion) . . . Spenser's works; this volume I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories... | |
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