 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...excellent character, much respected in the town, secretary to the Assembly, and a pretty poet. Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his method was to coaipose them in the types directly out of his head. There being no copy, but one pair of cases, and... | |
 | James Lawrence Onderdonk - American poetry - 1901 - 408 pages
...Philadelphia, the latter was composing an elegy on Rose; "Keimer made verses, too," says Franklin, "but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his manner was to compose directly out of his head." Aquila Rose was born in England about 1695, came to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 238 pages
...excellent character, much respected in the town, clerk of the Assembly, and a pretty poet. Kei'mer made verses too, but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his manner was to compose them in the types directly out of his head. So there being no copy, but one pair... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1905 - 354 pages
...of excellent character, much respected in the town, clerk of the Assembly, and a pretty poet. Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his manner was to compose them in the types directly out of his head. So there being no copy, but one pair... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1905 - 496 pages
...of excellent character, much respected in the town, clerk of the Assembly, and a pretty poet. Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his manner was to compose them in the types directly out of his head. So there being no copy, but one pair... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 pages
...of excellent character, much respected in the town, clerk of the Assembly, and a pretty poet. Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his manner was to compose them in the types directly out of his head. So there being no copy, but one pair... | |
 | Edwin Winfield Bowen - American literature - 1908 - 418 pages
...of excellent character, much respected in the town, clerk of the Assembly, and a pretty poet. Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his manner was to compose them in the types directly out of his head. So there being no copy, but one pair... | |
 | William B. Cairns - American literature - 1909 - 528 pages
...of excellent character, much respected in the town, clerk of the Assembly, and a pretty poet. Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his manner was to compose them in the types directly out of his head. So there being no copy, but one pair... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 236 pages
...of excellent character, much respected in the town, clerk of the Assembly, and a pretty poet. Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his manner was to compose them in the types directly out of his head. So there being no copy, but one pair... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers - 1910 - 368 pages
...to a certain size of type. respected in the town, clerk of the Assembly, and a pretty poet. Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his manner was to compose them in the types directly out of his head. So there being no copy, but one 5... | |
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Elegy on Aquila Rose, before mentioned, an ingenious young man, of excellent character, much respected in the town, clerk of the Assembly, and a pretty poet. 
