 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
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1907 - 112 pages
...only ten years old. In his Essay "On Myself" he tells us how he became a poet. "In my mother's parlour there was wont to lie Spenser's works : this I happened...knights and giants, and monsters and brave houses . . . and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers ; so that, I think, I... | |
 | Samuel Jones Gee - 1908 - 400 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...monsters and brave houses which I found everywhere there ; and by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so I think I had read him... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...take some Pleasure in it, there was wont to lye 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 lye Spencer's works; this I happen'd to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the Stories of... | |
 | 1912 - 396 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...devotion) — but there was wont to lie Spenser's works; thus I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants,... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1915 - 518 pages
...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...delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, and _ monsters, and brave houses, which I found everywhere there- — though my understanding had little... | |
 | Lucy Ella Fay, Anne Thaxter Eaton - 1915 - 462 pages
...to lie on my mother's parlor (I know not by what accident, for she herself never in her life read a book ' but of devotion,' but there was wont to lie)...upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of knights and giants and monsters and brave houses that I found there.' " 43 42 For example: Josephine... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1915 - 416 pages
...pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my Mothers 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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 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 78 PROSE AFTER THE RESTORATION CHAP. lie Spenser's works. This I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1918 - 398 pages
...pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my Mothers 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1920 - 392 pages
...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 Knights, and 30 Giants, and Monsters, and brave Houses, which I found every where there : (Though my understanding... | |
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