 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 526 pàgines
...PRACTICE IN COMPOSITION. About this time [at about fifteen] I met with an odd volume of The Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by for a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pàgines
...endeavor at improvement. 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,...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... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1899 - 1110 pàgines
...anddetermined to endeavoratimprovement." About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. ... I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted...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... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pàgines
...determined to endeavor at improvement." " About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. ... 1 bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted...excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. AVith this view I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence,... | |
 | 1899 - 1010 pàgines
...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 sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, try'd to... | |
 | Jasper Newton Deahl - 1900 - 118 pàgines
...Spectator. He says, " I read it over and over and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing was excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it....them by a few days, and then, without looking at the work, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 596 pàgines
...accomplishment : — " 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,...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... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pàgines
...accomplishment : — " 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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Montgomery - 1900 - 584 pàgines
...intimately acquainted. * * * 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,...writing* excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it But his apprenticeship to his brother, notwithstanding all these waysides of literary pleasure and... | |
 | George I. Aldrich, Alexander Forbes - 1900 - 444 pàgines
...be supposed to have in that way. 2. About this time, I met with an odd volume of the " Spectator." i I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. 3. With that in view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence,... | |
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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. 
