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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.
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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.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Frances Brooke
Born:
January 12, 1724
Died:
January 23, 1789
(aged 65)
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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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