| George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1850 - 666 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...using them, which I thought I should have acquired befofe that time, if I had gone on making verses ; since the continual search for words of the same... | |
| Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 pages
...by expressing esch sentiment at length, in suitable words. Then I compared my ' Spectator' with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in lecol- j lecting and using them. Therefore, I took some of the tales in the ' Spectator,' and turned... | |
| Popular educator - 1852 - 842 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and ueing them, which I thought I should have acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...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... | |
| Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the 'original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...that time, if I had gone on making verses ; since the continued search for words of the same import, but of different length to suit the measure, or of different... | |
| W. O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...expressed before in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...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 constant... | |
| 1856 - 422 pages
...words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered gome of ray faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a...thought I should have acquired before that time if I had gon? on making verses; since the continual search for •words of the same import, but of different... | |
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