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Rh Angers, whose stile and sentiment is equal to any of her predecessors or cotemporaries; and her manner of writing is such, as would almost make converts of those who do not in general admire that line of literature. Mrs. Thicknesse.

proofs, during her early infancy, of extraordinary musical abilities; for at fifteen, she played before the king, and Madame de Montespan kept her three or four years. She married Martin de la Guerre, an organist, and gave the world Cephalis and Procris (the words by Duché), three books of Cantatas, a collection of Harpsichord Lessons, another of Sonatas, and a Te Deum for the king's recovery, with grand chorusses, which was performed in the chapel at the Louvre, 1721. She died 1729.

of virtue, taste, and wisdom, author of ''Reflexions Chretiennes sur les Livres Historiques de l'Ancien Testament. Avis d'un Mere a son Fils. Instructions on Exercises pour les Sacramens de Penitence & d'Euchariste; and Pratiques pour se disposer a la Mort''.

a variety of poems, epistles, and dramas, which have met with great success, particularly the three fol-