Moreover, it is a good practice for him to write poetry, to improve himself in the use of language.
If I had continued to write poetry, I should have been obliged to select words that would rhyme, and this would have made me familiar with a larger number of words, and the choicest ones too.
He learned to read, and devoured all the romances and tales of adventure upon which he could lay hands, and in imitation of his schoolmaster he began to write poetry.
By this time James Macpherson had begun to write poetry.
Here he began to write poetry, but when he showed his poems to Dryden, who was a distant kinsman, he got little encouragement.
So said Bryant, who attributed to these prayers his earliest impulse to write poetry.
He had begun to write poetry in childhood, when his father had taught him the value of brevity or compression and "the difference between poetic enthusiasm and fustian.
He learned the trade of a shoemaker, but was constrained to write poetry by nature.
At the age of 14 he began to write poetry, and made verses and shoes, plays and pumps, with equal assiduity, to the age of 77, when he took an inventory of his literary stock in trade.
But though silent, he continued to write poetry, and it was in these sad wandering days that he began his immortal In Memoriam and his Idylls of the King.
Very early he began to write poetry, and records the fact with his usual vanity: As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
To write poetry as if it had never been written before is to attempt what the greatest poets never attempted.
I don't think I had any special hankering to write poetry as a little child, though I was of a very fanciful and dreamy nature.
There I took all the honors that I deserved; and if I did not learn to write poetry, as I once supposed I should, I learned at least to think in English without an accent.
I began to tell her how I was to go to college, to fit myself to write poetry, and get rich, and pay the arrears.
As I understood it, my business was to go to school, to learn everything there was to know, to write poetry, become famous, and make the family rich.
It is impossible for a man accustomed to write poetry to abstain when a happy subject smiles upon his delighted imagination.
If his eminence did not know how to write poetry, at least he knew how to be generous, and in a delicate manner, and that science is, at least in my estimation, superior to the other for a great nobleman.
I dare say I shouldn't try to write poetry," Katharine replied.
When about eighteen years of age he commenced to write poetry, the first of which was published in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper.
Shortly after coming to Town Point Mr. Evans began to write poetry, much of which was published in one of the local newspapers under the signature of Agricola.
Mr. McCauley commenced to write poetry when a young man and has contributed poetry, but much more prose, to the newspapers of this county during the last half century.
I can't write poetry or sing like a bird; but I should think I might have my share of glory in some way.
You needn't look so guilty; it is no sin to write poetry," said Rose, amused at his confusion.
Indeed, I did not know that you could write poetry at all.
Moreover, it is a good practice for him, and for all of us, to write poetry, even if it does not come quite up to Milton.
Benjamin was not more than seven years old when he began to write poetry.
He continued to write poetry, chiefly love-songs, during his illness.
You needn't look so guilty; it is no sin to write poetry," said Rose, amused at his confession.
I can't write poetry or sing like a bird, but I should think I might have my share of glory in some way.
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