 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 - Page 6by Benjamin Franklin - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting...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 - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...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 alto sometimes jumbled my collection... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Intellectuals - 1830 - 452 pages
...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... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...would have laid me tinder constant necessity of searching fur variety, and also have tended to tix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it....some of the tales in The Spectator, and turned them in:u verse : and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 666 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...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... | |
 | People - 1845 - 348 pages
...for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound to the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity...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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