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122 Paris, in the English Translation of Ovid's Epistles, is by Mrs. Behn. Dryden says of it, that "she understood not Latin, but shamed those that did." She wrote also the celebrated Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister, printed in 1684. She was a fine woman, a brunette, of a quick and pleasing countenance. Had not Mrs. Behn been so strongly tinctured with the prevalent dissipation and loose morality of the age, her talents would have ranked her higher in the list of female writers. New Biographical Dictionary, &c.

of great personal beauty and conversational powers, Mrs. Bellamy was much courted by the greatest wits of her day; but imprudent attachments and connections deprive her of a right to that admiration which her talents otherwise would claim. She wrote an apology for her life, in five duodecimo volumes.

principal are, Observations sur la Noblesse et le tiers Etat; les Reflexions d'un Provincial sur le Discours de M. Rousseau; Melanges de Literature Anglais."

This consists of translations from the best English authors, in which she has shown no less discernment than taste in the subjects she has chosen, and the manner in which they are executed; Histoire de Rasselas; Ophele; Histoire de la Maison de Tudor, &c. F.C.