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Rh verse and prose; but her Peruvian Letters are her chef-d'œuvre; and, without laying claim to the highest palm of genius, are the pleasing productions of a mind of taste and observation. Mrs. Thicknesse.

flowers, fruits, herbs, and animals, so true to nature that it was wonderful: she embroidered excellently, and gave lessons in all those studies. She flourished in 1683. Some of her drawings are in the British Museum. Abec. Pitt.

the French poem of Palamon and Arcite, at the command of Claude, queen of Francis I. about the year 1489: she took her story from Boccace's Theseide. Wharton's Hist, of Eng. Poetry.

. was deemed almost a prodigy of learning for his early years; yet, in this respect, his pious cousin, Lady Jane, was allowed to be his superior, though