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p. 397 your trusty Roger. cf. p. 399 Lucian's Dialogue. Behn no doubt used the translation of Lucian by Ferrand Spence. 5 Vols. 1684-5. 'Icaromenippus' is given in Vol. p. 399 The Man in the Moon. This is a highly diverting work.
An old lady properly so called, both as respects the adjective and the noun, for she was past eighty, and was refined and pure astonished my friend, by asking him one day to try and get a volume or two for her of the works of Assa Behn.
II there are two further extracts 'obmises dans le premier Tome', a dialogue between the Doctor and Harlequin, 'recit que fait Arlequin au Docteur, du Voyage qu'il a fait dans le Monde de la Lune', and a short passage between Harlequin and Colombine, both of which can be closely paralleled in the English version. Mrs. Behn of course used the edition of 1684.
Behn died after a long indisposition, April 16, 1689, and was buried in the cloister of Westminster Abbey. We shall beg leave to exhibit her character, as we find it drawn by some of her cotemporaries, and add a remark of our own. 'Mr.
Many books, written for temporary effect, had run through six or seven editions, and had then been gathered to the novels of Afra Behn, and the epic poems of Sir Richard Blackmore.
I knew her intimately well, and I believe she would not have concealed any love affair from me, being one of her own sex, whose friendship and secrecy she had experienced, which makes me assure the world that there was no intrigue between that Prince and Astræa. Behn, a Merchant there, but of Dutch extraction.
Behn in spartan delicacy; but I shall see Miss Farren, who, in my poor opinion, is the first of all actresses. Writing three days later to the same lady he has: 'The Greybeards have certainly been chastised, for we did not find them at all gross. The piece is farcical and improbable, but has some good things, and is admirably acted. Those 'good things' are entirely due to Mrs. Behn.
For the rest there was a quantity of bloodshed and intrigue and false accusation, but I was surprised, considering the subject, how little was against Popery; but Mrs. Behn was content at the end of it to make the Cardinal beg pardon of King Philip.
Behn, with whom he was intimate in his life-time. His whole works consisting of Dialogues, Essays, Declamations, Satires, Letters from the Dead to the Living, Translations, Amusements, &c. were printed in 4 vol. 12mo, 1707.
Behn, and printed in her collection of poems published in 8vo, 1681; it was revised and printed by the author in his life-time, being ushered into the world with copies of verses by some of the best wits, both of Oxford and Cambridge. 4.
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