 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1886 - 256 pages
...be missed or wanted. And after some time an ingenious tradesman, Mr. Matthew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, and who frequented our printing-house,...took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces; my brother, thinking it might turn to account, encouraged me, and put me on (composing occasional ballads!)... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...missed or wanted. 150 8. And after some time an ingenious tradesman, Mr. Matthew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, and who frequented our printing-house,...took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces. My brother, 155 thinking it might turn to account, encouraged me, and put me on composing occasional... | |
 | W & R CHAMBERS - 1887 - 238 pages
...might be missed or wanted. At length, Mr Matthew Adams, an ingenious tradesman, who had a handsome collection of books, and who frequented our printing-house, took notice of me. He invited me to seo his library, and had the goodness to lend me any books I was desirous of reading.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 pages
...be missed or wanted. And after some time an ingenious tradesman, Mr. Matthew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, and who frequented our printing-house,...took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces ; my brother, thinking it might turn to account, encouraged me, and put me on composing occasional... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...be missed or wanted. And after some time an ingenious tradesman, Mr. Matthew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, and who frequented our printinghouse,...took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces ; my brother, thinking it might turn to account, encouraged me, and put me on composing occasional... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1890 - 448 pages
...tradesman, Mr. Matthew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, and who frequented our printing house, took notice of me, invited me to his library, and...took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces ; my brother, thinkipg it might turn to account, encouraged me, and put me on composing occasional... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - American literature - 1889 - 324 pages
...be missed or wanted. And after some time an ingenious tradesman, Mr. Matthew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, and who frequented our printing-house,...took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces ; my brother, thinking it might turn to account, encouraged me, and put me on composing occasional... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 pages
...be missed or wanted. And after some time an ingenious tradesman, Mr. Matthew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, and who frequented our printing-house,...took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces; my brother, thinking it might turn to account,1 encouraged 1. The street-ballad was a popular, and... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - Readers - 1892 - 416 pages
...be missed or wanted. 6. After some time an ingenious tradesman, Mr. Matthew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, and who frequented our printing-house,...took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces. My brother, thinking it might turn to account, encouraged me, and put me on composing occasional ballads.... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...peddlers a suitable And after some time an ingenious * tradesman, Mr. Matthew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, and who frequented our printing-house,...his library, and very kindly lent me such books as 1 chose to read. I now took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces. My brother, thinking it... | |
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I now took a fancy to poetry, and made some little pieces ; my brother, thinking it might turn to account, encouraged me, and put me on composing occasional ballads. One was called The Lighthouse Tragedy... 
