 | Vanessa, Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1921 - 230 pages
...very well received. XXX Swift to Vanessa. Addressed : To Miss Hessy Vanhom[r]i. Endorsed: 3rd (?). If you write as you do, I shall come the seldomer, on...without your hand on the outside, and I hold you a crowii I shall not 1 " The say " is cancelled. In changing the construction, Vanessa forgot to write... | |
 | Shane Leslie - Biography & Autobiography - 1928 - 384 pages
...halves. But this was a letter he had to answer and with mingled reluctance and relish he wrote: "If you write as you do, I shall come the seldomer on...brat, who cannot read, can possibly write so well. . . .But raillery apart, I think it inconvenient for a hundred reasons that I should make your house... | |
 | 1855 - 848 pages
...I undertake a thing, I don't love to do it by halves." Sicift to Miss Vanhomrigh : DuUln, 1720. "If you write as you do, I shall come the seldomer on...which I never look into without wondering how a brat that cannot read can possibly write so well. * # Itnillery apart, I think it inconvenient, for a hundred... | |
 | Louise Barnett - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 238 pages
...black one" (W 2:319), Swift turned aside her intensity with a lightly expressed threat of his own: "If you write as You do, I shall come the seldomer on...with Your Letters, which I never look into without wondring how a Brat who cannot read, can possibly write so well." He continues in this vein, "You need... | |
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... and more, I assure you. Come at what time you please, you can never fail of being very well received.] TO MISS VANHOMRIGH.* IP you write as you do, I shall come the seldomer, on purpose to be pleased with your letters, which I never look into without... 
