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" 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... "
The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. Continuation - Page 167
by George Lillie Craik - 1881
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The Many-Sided Franklin

Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 pages
...on making verses ; since the continued occasion for words of the same import, but of different 222 length, to suit the measure, or of different sound...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....
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The Art of Writing & Speaking the English Language, Volume 1

Sherwin Cody - Authorship - 1903 - 136 pages
...thought I should have acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses, since the continued search for words of the same import, but of different...variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and,...
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Classics Old and New: A Series of School Readers, Book 4

Edwin Anderson Alderman - Readers - 1906 - 268 pages
...that time if I had gone on making verses. In verse the continual occasion for words of the same value, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of...under a constant necessity of searching for variety. Verse would also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. 45 I also sometimes...
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Classics Old and New: A Series of School Readers : A Fourth Reader

Edwin Anderson Alderman - Readers - 1906 - 268 pages
...that time if I had gone on making verses. In verse the continual occasion for words of the same value, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of...under a constant necessity of searching for variety. Verse would also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. 45 I also sometimes...
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The Writer, Volume 21

Authorship - 1909 - 256 pages
...of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them, which I thought I should have acquired if I had gone on making verses ; since the continual...different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under the constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind....
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Selections from Early American Writers, 1607-1800

William B. Cairns - American literature - 1909 - 520 pages
...should have acquired before that time if 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 fhe rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended...
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Writing English Prose

William Tenney Brewster - English language - 1913 - 264 pages
...Besides the imitation, the value of the practice in verse lay in the fact that "the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length,...to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rime, would have laid me under the constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended...
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The Art of Writing English: A Book for College Classes

Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - English language - 1913 - 396 pages
...should have acquired before that time if 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 rime, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended...
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The Stoddard Library: Eliot-Gladstone

John Lawson Stoddard - Anthologies - 1913 - 494 pages
...readiness in recollecting and using them, which I thought I should have acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses ; since the continual...search for words of the same import, but of different lengths, to suit the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant...
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The Seventh Reader

Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - Readers - 1914 - 360 pages
...should have acquired before that time if 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 rime, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for s0 variety, and also have tended...
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