 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - American literature - 1904 - 468 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,...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 - 1905 - 238 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 - Statesmen - 1905 - 354 pages
...discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness 18 in recollecting and using them, which I thought I...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... | |
 | Franklin Bi-centennial Joint Committee (Boston, Mass.) - Boston (Mass.) - 1906 - 132 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...acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses. . . . Therefore, I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 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...acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses. . . . Therefore, I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 128 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...acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses. . . . Therefore, I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1906 - 268 pages
...compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and 14 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words,...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... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman - Readers - 1906 - 268 pages
...them. But I found that I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them. This I thought I should have acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses. In verse the continual occasion for words of the same value, but of different length, to suit the measure,... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman - Readers - 1906 - 268 pages
...them. But I found that I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them. This I thought I should have acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses. In verse the continual occasion for words of the same value, but of different length, to suit the measure,... | |
 | Readers - 1907 - 284 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... | |
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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... 
