 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
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1897 - 424 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - United States - 1897 - 268 pages
...them. " But I found that I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them. "Therefore, I took some of the tales in the Spectator...turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again." About this time his brother began to... | |
 | Charles Noble - American literature - 1898 - 460 pages
...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... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...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... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - Statesmen - 1898 - 440 pages
...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 - 1899 - 204 pages
...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... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 pages
...for words of the same import, but of different 222 length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant...and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, GRAMMAR OFTHE €ngttfy tltatgue, With NOTES, Giving the Grounds and Reafbn of Grammar in General.... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Montgomery - Pennsylvania. University - 1900 - 578 pages
...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 - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...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 iretty well forgotten the prose, turned... | |
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