fascinating, with their lively eyes, with their quick snappish
fancies; distinguished in the higher circles, in Fashion, even in
Literature; they hum and buzz there, on graceful
film-wings:--searching, nevertheless, with the wonderfullest skill
for honey; _un_tamable as flies!--_The Diamond Necklace._

Nature is very kind to all children, and to all mothers that are
true to her.--_Frederick the Great._

She is of stately figure;--of beautiful still countenance.--A
completeness, a decision is in this fair female figure; by energy
she means the spirit that will prompt one to sacrifice himself for
his country.--_French Revolution._

A clever, high-mannered, massive-minded old lady; admirable as a
finished piece of social art, but hardly otherwise
much.--_Reminiscences._

Who can account for the taste of females?--_The Diamond Necklace._

A Beauty, but over light-headed: a Booby who had fine legs. How
these first courted, billed, and cooed, according to nature; then
pouted, fretted, grew utterly enraged and blew one another
up.--_Boswell's Life of Johnson._

With delicate female tact, with fine female stoicism too, keeping
all things within limits.--_Frederick the Great._

A true-hearted, sharp-witted sister.--_Essay of Diderot._

A graceful, brave, and amiable woman;--her choicest gift an open
eye and heart.--_Oliver Cromwell._

Every graceful and generous quality of womanhood harmoniously
blended in her nature.--_Life of Schiller._

She is a fair vision, the _beau ideal_ of a poet's first
mistress.--_Life of Schiller._

Heaven, though severe, is _not_ unkind; Heaven is kind, as a noble
mother; as that Spartan mother, saying while she gave her son his
shield, "With it, my son, or upon it!"--Complain not; the very
Spartans did not complain.--_Past and Present_.

VICTOR HUGO.

All her face, all her person, breathed an ineffable love and
kindness. She had always been predestined to gentleness, but Faith,
Hope, and Charity, those three virtues that softly warm the soul,
had gradually elevated that gentleness to sanctity. Nature had only
made her a lamb, and religion had made her an angel.--_Les
Miserables._

She was the very embodiment of joy as she went to and fro in the