 I had gone on making verses; since 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 under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have...  Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin - Seite 6von Benjamin Franklin - 1859Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 Seiten
...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 under a constant...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... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 842 Seiten
...for words of the same import, but of difieren t length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...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 under a constant...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... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 Seiten
...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 under a constant...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 collections... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...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 under a constant...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... | |
 | 1856 - 422 Seiten
...for •words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or ot different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant...turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back ag;un. I also sometimes jumbled my collection... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1856 - 1124 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1858 - 524 Seiten
...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 under a constant...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... | |
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