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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... "
The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. - Page 219
by George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 3 pages
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A Reader for the First - Eighth Grades

Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks - Readers - 1912 - 296 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,...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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The Stoddard Library: Eliot-Gladstone

John Lawson Stoddard - Anthologies - 1913 - 494 pages
...expressed before in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with an original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...search for words of the same import, but of different lengths, to suit the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant...
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The Art of Writing English: A Book for College Classes

Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1913 - 400 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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The Seventh Reader

Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - Readers - 1914 - 360 pages
...faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recol4slecting and using them, which I thought I should have acquired...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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Studies in the Technique of Prose Style

Percy Waldron Long - English language - 1915 - 156 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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Principles of Composition

Percy Holmes Boynton - English language - 1915 - 416 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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American Literature Through Illustrative Readings

Sarah Emma Simons - American literature - 1915 - 492 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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Readings from American Literature: A Textbook for Schools and Colleges

Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - American literature - 1915 - 670 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...
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American Prose: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers ...

George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 pages
...that, that which was not truly honest could not be truly useful. LEARNING TO WRITE About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never...search for words of the same import, but of different lengths, to suit the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant...
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American Prose (1607-1865)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...that, that which was not truly honest could not be truly useful. LEARNING TO WRITE About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never...search for words of the same import, but of different lengths, to suit the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant...
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