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The road from Quebec to Montreal is almost a continued street, the villages being numerous, and so extended along the banks of the river St. Lawrence as to leave scarce a space without houses in view; except where here or there a river, wood, or mountain intervenes, as if to give a more pleasing variety to the scene.

Frances Brooke

A state of rest is ungraceful; all nature is most beautiful in motion: trees agitated by the wind, a ship under sail, a horse in the course, a fine woman dancing.

Frances Brooke

Frances Brooke

Frances Brooke

Born: January 12, 1724

Died: January 23, 1789 (aged 65)

Bio: Frances Brooke was an English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator.

Known for:

The History of Emily Montague (1769)
The excursion (1777)
The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1763)
Manners: A Novel

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