 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...seek for a variety of synonymes, and huve rendered me master of them. Fretn thisbeliefl took some pi' the tales of the Spectator, and turned them into verse...and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten tiiem, I again converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries together ; and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1810 - 292 pages
...different lengths for the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes, and have rendered me master...verse ; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotlen them, I again converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries together... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...different lengths for the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes, and have rendered me master...converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries together ; and, a few weeks after, endeavoured to arrange them in the best order,... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...or of different sounds for. the rhyme, would have obliged me to seek for a TO. riety of synonyms,- and have rendered me master of them. From this belief,...a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I a, gain converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries together ; and a few weeks... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1815 - 336 pages
...different lengths for the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes, and have rendered me master...converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries together ; and a few weeks after, endeavoured to arrange them in the best order, before... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales, in the Spectator, and turned them into verse: And after a time when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1823 - 310 pages
...different lengths for the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes, and have rendered me master...converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries together ; and a few weeks after, endeavoured to arrange them in the best order, before... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 376 pages
...different lengths, for the measure, or of different sounds for the rbyme, would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes, and have rendered me master...and turned them into verse: and after a time, when I bai! sufficiently 'orgotten them. I again converted them into prose. Sometimes, also, I mingled all... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 382 pages
...different, sounds for the rhyme, would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes. and lune rendered me master of them. From this belief, I took...and turned them into verse: and after a time, when I hati sufficient!} *orgotten them, I again converted them into prosei Sometimes, also. I mingled all... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1825 - 324 pages
...different lengths for the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes, and have rendered me master...converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries together ; and, a few weeks after, endeavoured to arrange them in the best order,... | |
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... for the rhyme would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator... 
