 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 pages
...my faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in collecting and using them, which I thought I should have acquired...the continual search for words of the same import, hut of different length to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 452 pages
...discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readi• ness in recollecting and using them, which I thought I...if 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 250 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...if 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 280 pages
...hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected themj But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness...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... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...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... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - Statesmen - 1898 - 440 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...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... | |
 | Charles Noble - American literature - 1898 - 460 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pages
...hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and cor20 rected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a...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... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 pages
...my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found that I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting...that time if I had gone on making verses ; since the continued occasion for words of the same import, but of different 222 length, to suit the measure,... | |
 | 1899 - 1010 pages
...my Sftfctator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found that I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting...that time if I had gone on making verses; since the continued occasion for men. 289 words of the same import, but of different length, respondence is acknowledged... | |
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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... 
