 | James Hogg - 1807 - 242 pages
...they had been in the same kind of metre with the " Psalms," I could have borne with them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them...learned, I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me; so that, before I got to the end of a line, I had commonly lost the rhyme of the... | |
 | James Hogg - 1807 - 232 pages
...they had been in the same kind of metre with the " Psalms," I could have borne with them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them...learned, I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me ; so that, before I got to the end of a line, I had commonly lost the rhyme of... | |
 | 1821 - 970 pages
...if they had been in the same kind of metre with the Psalms, I could hare borne with them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them....learned I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me; so that, before I got to the end of a line, I had commonly lost the rhyme of the... | |
 | James Hogg - 1821 - 436 pages
...if they had been in the same kind of metre with the Psalms, I could have borne with them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them....learned I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me; so that, before I got to the end of a line, I had commonly lost the rhyme of the... | |
 | 1825 - 348 pages
...if they had heen in the same kind of metre with the Psahns, I could have borne with them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them...•learned, I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me ; so that, hefore I got to the end of a line, I had commonly lost the rhyme of... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 618 pages
...if they had been in the same kind of metre with the Psalms, I could have borne with them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them....learned I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me, so that, before I got to the end of a Une, I had commonly lost the rhyme of the... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 626 pages
...if they had hoen in the same kind of metre with the Psalms, I could have borne with them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them....reading that I had learned I had nearly lost, and tlio Scottish dialect quite confounded me, so that, before I got to the cud of a line, I had commonly... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1831 - 628 pages
...if they had been in the same kind of metre with the Psalms, I could have borne widi them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them. The little reading that I hod learned I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me, so that, tafore I got... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1831 - 620 pages
...if they had been in the same kind of metre with the Psahns, I could have borne with them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them. The little reading til at I had learned I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me, so that, liefere... | |
 | James Hogg - 1832 - 334 pages
...if they had been in the same kind of metre with the psalms, I could have borne with them. The truth is, I made exceedingly slow progress in reading them....learned, I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me ; so that, before I got to the end of a line, I had commonly lost the rhyme of... | |
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The little reading that I had learned, I had nearly lost, and the Scottish dialect quite confounded me ; so that, before I got to the end of a line, I had commonly lost the rhyme of the preceding one ; and, if I came to a triplet, a thing of... 
