10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WRITATIVE»
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: A Work of Universal ...
Mme. D'Arblay, Diary, II. 168. (Davies) writative (ri'ta-tiv), u. [irreg. (after talkative) (
wri!(e) + -atii'c.] Disposed or inclined to write; given to writing. [Nonce-w0rd.]
Increase of years makes men more talkative, but less writative. Pope, To Swift,
Aug.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1895
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
Mine. V'Arbtay, Diary, II. 168. (Davits ) writative (ri'ta-tiv), o. [Irreg. (after talkative) <
writ(e) + -ative.] Disposed or inclined to write; given to writing. [Nonce-word.]
Increase of years makes men more talkative, but less writative. Pope, To Swift,
Aug.
F-ÞND , tho"I have less 'experience than you,the:truth of what you told me some
time ago, that increase ofyears makes men more talkative but less writative: to
that degree, that I now' write no letters but of plain business, or plain how-d'ye's, ...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Letters
PIND, though I have less experience than you, the truth of what you told me some
time ago, that increase of years makes men more talkative but less writative: to
that degree, that now write no letters but of plain business, or plain how-'d'ye's to
...
Alexander Pope, William Warburton, 1797
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Miscellaneous Works of the Late Philip Dormer, Earl of ...
A very unministerial proceeding! lt is. a common observation, that blind people
are apt to be talkative, and it is no less true (as you find to your cost) that deaf
people are apt to be writative; but I am only so quoad bunc, and from a desire of ...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations
_ less writative ;- to that degree, that I now write no letters but of plain business, or
plain how-d'ye's to those few I am forcedto correspond with, either outof necessity
or love: and I grow laconic even beyond laconicism';'for sometimes I return ...
Alexander Pope, William Roscoe, 1824
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The Dictionary of Love, in which is Contained the ...
... one night's luscious ban~ quet. It is being put to bed in a fit of drunkenness, to
rise the next morning miserably sobered, and with a head-ache for life. Lovely—
See Amiable. L0ve-Lelters—billet-dour. There is no passion so writative as Love.
John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, 1800
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The Leadbeater Papers: A Selection from the Mss. and ...
This, I grant you, is not like myself, but you know I always distinguish between a
man's talkative and writative character. Seriously, if you knew how much trouble
your silence gives me, after a long letter from me you would never disappoint me.
Mary Leadbeater, Edmund Burke, Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench, 1862
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The letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford
TO THE COUNTESS OP OSSORY. Berkeley Square, Jan. 18, 1780. You are very
suspicious and very unjust, Madam ; and I must have been the most ungrateful of
men, and the most blind to my own faults, I who am so writative and talkative to ...
Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham, 1891
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: ...
August 17, 1736. 1 FIND, though I have less experience than you, the ' truth of
what you told me some time ago, that increase of years makes men more
talkative, but less writative: to that degree, that I now write no letters but of plain
business, ...
Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, 1806
