 I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also...  The Popular Educator - Page 2681856Full view - About this book
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...would have laid me tinder constant necessity of searching fur variety, and also have tended to tix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it....some of the tales in The Spectator, and turned them in:u verse : and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 pages
...corrected them. "But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in lecol- j lecting and using them. Therefore, I took some of the tales in the ' Spectator,' and turned them into verse; and after a tune, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...the continued search for words of the same import, but of different length to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me...my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took seme of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and, after%, time, when I had pretty... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...different length to suit the measure, or of different sound, for the rhyme, would have laid me under constant necessity of searching for variety, and also...that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. There» fore I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and? after a time,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
...continual search for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me...and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when 1 had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I als«. sometimes jumbled my collection... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 pages
...the continual search for words of the same import, but of different length to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me...have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make mo master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales in tho Spectator and turned them into verse ; and,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 426 pages
...continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me...me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 pages
...continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me...me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 pages
...continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me...me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned... | |
 | Education - 1877 - 972 pages
...continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me...me master of it Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned... | |
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