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
| Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - 1901 - 526 Seiten
...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...me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them... | |
| William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1902 - 564 Seiten
...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...me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse, and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them... | |
| Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 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... | |
| 1903 - 362 Seiten
...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...me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse, and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them... | |
| D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 362 Seiten
...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...me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse, and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them... | |
| Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 136 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...variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and,... | |
| Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 Seiten
...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...me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them... | |
| Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 468 Seiten
...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...me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned... | |
| William Makepeace Thayer - 1905 - 422 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... | |
| Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1905 - 362 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. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN : Autobiography. tween... | |
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