 I had gone on making verses; since the continual 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 necessity 'of searching for variety, and also...  Literature and Life - Page 430by Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 514 pages
...synonymes, and have rendered me master of them. From, this belief, I took some of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I again converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 518 pages
...synonymes, and have rendered me master of them. From this belief, I took some of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I again converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all ray summaries... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...synonymes, and huve rendered me master of them. Fretn thisbeliefl took some pi' the tales of the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten tiiem, I again converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 292 pages
...synonymes, and have rendered me master of them. From this belief, I took some of the tales of the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotlen them, I again converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...synonymes, and have rendered me master of them. From this belief, I took some of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verse, and, after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I again converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...synonyms,- and have rendered me master of them. From this belief, I took some of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I a, gain converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 272 pages
...synonyma, and have rendered me master of them. From this belief, I took some of the tales of the Spectator, and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had sufficiently •forgotten them, I again converted them into prose. Sometimes, also, 1 mingled all my... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 576 pages
...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...master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales, in the Spectator, and turned them into verse: And after a time when I had pretty well forgotten the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...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...master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales, in the Spectator, and turned them into verse: And after a time when I had pretty well forgotten the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 pages
...variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse: and after a time, when...turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order,... | |
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