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 idéal_ of a poet's first
mistress.--_Life of Schiller._


Heaven, though severe, is _not_ unkind; Heaven is kind, as a noble