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pages*. And to this appropriation, we owe many 
of his moft pleafing fallies. For being bounded in 
his literary acquirements, his imagination had freer 
play, and more natural graces. He feized the. 
grotefque objects of obfolete erudition, prefented 
by his original, with a vigour untamed by previous 
labour, and an ardour unabated by familiarity with 
literary folly. The curious Chapters on Nofes + 
afford the ftrongeft proof of this remark. About the 
time 
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nobdreg En TOAMAGY VapeTaY Ef TIS MOMiTuS REVILe TI, 
elo Tyv Wugyy peroyetevcet, 
Dionys. Halicarn, Apy: Kar: 
+ Sterne would have made much of a paflage in 
the Memoirs of La Porte: it refpeéts the views of 
Mademoifelle to a marriage with Louis i4th.—“ Je dis 
* tout cela a la Reine, qui fe mocqua de moi, me difant; 
“ ce n’eft pour fon nez, quoiqu’il foit bien grand,’”— 
Mem. de la Porte, p. 275, 
The following precious anecdote on this fubje&, occurs 
in the curious Mifcellany publifhed under the affumed 
name of Vigneul Marville: ‘“* Les nés camus deplaifent, et 
«¢ font de mauvaife augure. Le Connetable Anne de 
«* Montmorency étoit camus; et on l’appelloit a la Cour, 
«le Camus de Montmorency. Le Duc de Guife, fils 
_ & de celui qui fut tué a Blois, étoit auffi camus; et j’ai 
¢* connu un Gentilhomme qui ayant une vénération fin- 
« guliére pour ces deux Maifons de Guife et de Mont- 
** morency, ne fe pouvoit confoler de ce qu'il s’y ¢toit 
«“ trouvé deux camus, comme fi ce defaut en diminuoit le 
“ luftre.” Tom. 1. p, 140, 
« He* ; 
