Leaves from a Madeira Garden 



her saying ' that Swift would have written 

 better if he had never written ludicrously.' " 



But to talk nothing but Madeira is my 

 purpose on setting out ; I talk a European 

 dialect, yet I fear that in my occasional lapses 

 from the serious I may merit the censure of my 

 Lady Pomfret's successors in criticism. 



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