 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...  Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country - Seite 77herausgegeben von - 1844Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Abraham Cowley - 1915 - 416 Seiten
...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...Giants, and Monsters, and brave Houses, which I found every where there : (Though my understanding had little to 20 do with all this) and by degrees with... | |
 | Lucy Ella Fay, Anne Thaxter Eaton - 1915 - 462 Seiten
...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) Spenser's...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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1918 - 396 Seiten
...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 Knights, and 30 Giants, and Monsters, and brave Houses, which I found every where there : (Though my understanding... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1920 - 392 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1922 - 322 Seiten
...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 (before I was twelve years old), and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights and giants... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1923 - 238 Seiten
...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...Giants, and Monsters, and brave Houses, which I found every where 20 there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) : and by degrees with... | |
 | Francis La Mar Janney - 1925 - 154 Seiten
...twelve, he "had read him all over," and, "though his understanding had little to do with all this," he "was infinitely delighted with the stories of the...knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, . . . and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers." Elsewhere he writes... | |
 | Louis Wann - 1926 - 564 Seiten
...schoolboy's wish her life read any book but of devotion), in a copy of verses to the same effect: — but there was wont to lie Spenser's works ; this I happened to fall upon, and was Well then ; i now do plainly see infinitely delighted with the stones of the This busy world and I... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - 1967 - 164 Seiten
...the story, as Cowley tells us he was — there was wont to lye in my Mothers Parlour . . . Spencers Works; this I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely...Giants, and Monsters, and brave Houses, which I found every where there.1 As long as Romanticism lasted, the poem could be enjoyed on the narrative level... | |
 | Albert Charles Hamilton - 1997 - 884 Seiten
...to read, and to take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my Mothers Parlour ... Spencers Works; this I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely...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... | |
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