Note 165 — ALPINE SCENERY. A POEM. ADDRESSED TO THE REV. THOMAS SEDGWICK WHALLEY, DURING HIS RESIDENCE ON THE CONTINENT, IN 1785.
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l. 20. Fatal price—The young women of France and Savoy are educated in monasteries, nor, in general, mix at all with the world till they are removed from their gloomy and wearisome exclusion, to be married to the husband appointed for them.