 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 - 1905 - 354 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 238 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... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman - 1906 - 268 Seiten
...for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety. Verse would also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and...me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse. After a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, I turned them... | |
 | 1907 - 284 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... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - 1908 - 500 Seiten
...since the continual occasion for words of the same import, 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... | |
 | MARY CAROLINE CRAWFORD - 1908 - 540 Seiten
...since the continual occasion for words of the same import, 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 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...and 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 - 1909 - 236 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 B. Cairns - 1909 - 520 Seiten
...words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for fhe rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity...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... | |
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