 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 pages
...improve my style. About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator.6 I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...how he did this: About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. 1 had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...With that view, I took some of the papers, and making shorts hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1884 - 234 pages
...missing. . . . About this time I met with an odd volume of the ' Spectator.' I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 pages
...About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. ing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator.3 It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment4 in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 264 pages
...About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view, I took some of the papers, and, making shorb hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 628 pages
...delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment4 in each sentence, laid them by a few days; and then, without looking at the book, tried... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1886 - 216 pages
...missing. . . . About this time I met with an odd volume of the ' Spectator.' I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...great noise. What is the figure of speech ? (See Def. 20.) It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and, 175 making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 pages
...About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. 1 It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid... | |
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I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. 
