Lady of the Last Century
By John Doran · Running time 07:36:10 · Biography & Autobiography
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In the year 1809, Mr. Matthew Montagu published the first two of four volumes of letters of his aunt, Elizabeth Montagu. He was not only her nephew, he was also her adopted son and her executor. On the 5th of December in that year, the celebrated statesman, William Windham, was reading those volumes, “in the evening, up-stairs;” and he subsequently recorded the following judgment of them in his diary: “I think very highly of them. One of their chief merits is series juncturaque . Nothing can be more easy and natural than the manner in which the thoughts rise one out of the other, even where th
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