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
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_.