The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman. f. MACAULAY-Essays. Criticisms on the Principal Italian Writers. No. 1.

Woman may err, woman may give her mind
To evil thoughts, and lose her pure estate;
But for one woman who affronts her kind
By wicked passions and remorseless hate,
A thousand make amends in age and youth,
By heavenly pity, by sweet sympathy,
By patient kindness, by enduring truth,
By love, supremest in adversity.

g. CHARLES MACKAY-Praise of Women.

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman!

It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks, It ravishes all senses.

HANNAH MORE--Essays on Various Subjects. Thoughts on Conversation. Who trusts himself to women, or to waves, Should never hazard what he fears to lose. น. OLDMIXON Governor of Cyprus.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without

you,

Angels are painted fair to look like you. OTWAY-Venice Preserved. Act I.

V.

Se. 1.

What mighty ills have not been done by woman?

Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman!
Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman!
Who was the cause of a long ten year's war,
And laid at last old Troy in Ashes? Woman!
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!
w. OTWAY--The Orphan. Act III. Sc. 1.

Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.

Still an angel appear to each lover beside, But still be a woman to you.

y.

PARNELL-When thy Beauty Appears.

To chase the clouds of life's tempestuous hours,

To strew its short but weary way with flow'rs,
New hopes to raise, new feelings to impart,
And pour celestial balsam on the heart;
For this to man was lovely woman giv'n,
The last, best work, the noblest gift of
Heav'n.

a. THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK-The Visions of Love.

Fine by defect, and delicately weak. b. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. II. Line 43. Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

C. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. II.

Line 138.

A woman is the most inconsistent compound of obstinacy and self-sacrifice that I am acquainted with.

h.

RICHTER-Flower, Fruit and Thorn
Pieces. Ch. V.

The little work-tables of women's fingers are the play grounds of women's fancies, and their knitting-needles are fairy-wands by which they transform the whole room into a spirit-isle of dreams; hence it is that a letter or book distracts a woman in love more than four pair of stockings knit by herself.

i. RICHTER--Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces. Ch. V.

By this good light, a wench of matchless mettle.

j. SCOTT-Fortunes of Nigel. Ch. XIX.

O, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,.
And variable as the shade

By the light quivering aspen made:

When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!

k. SCOTT-Marmion. Canto VI. St. 30.

Widowed wife and wedded maid.

1. SCOTT-The Betrothed. Ch. XV.

v.

And do you tell me of a woman's tongue?
Taming of the Shrew. Act I. Sc. 2.
Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for naught?
w. Passionate Pilgrim. Pt. XIX.
Her sighs will make a battery in his breast;
Her tears will pierce into a marble heart;
The tiger will be mild, while she doth mourn;
And Nero will be tainted with remorse,
To hear, and see, her plaints.

X. Henry VI. Pt. III. Act III. Sc. 1.

I am asham'd, that women are so simple To offer war, where they should kneel for peace;

Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway, When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.

y.

Taming of the Shrew. Act V. Sc. 2.

One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.

J. Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 1.

One woman is fair; yet I am well: another is wise; yet I am well: another virtuous; yet I am well: But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

k. Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 3.

Run, run, Orlando: carve on every tree The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. 1. As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 2.

King Lear. Act III. Sc. 2.

"Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud;

"Tis virtue that doth make them most admir'd;

*

*

'Tis government that makes them seem divine.

S. Henry IV. Pt. III. Act I. Sc. 4. To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act III. Se. 1. Two women plac'd together makes cold weather.

t.

u.

Henry VIII.

Act I. Sc. 4.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

n. VOLTAIRE-A Phüosophical Dictionary.
Women.

Not from his head was woman took,
As made her husband to o'erlook;
Not from his feet, as one designed
The footstool of the stronger kind;
But fashioned for himself, a bride;
An equal, taken from his side.

0. CHARLES WESLEY-Short Hymns on
Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures.
1762.

You say, sir, once a wit allow'd
A woman to be like a cloud,
Accept a simile as soon
Between a woman and the moon;
For let mankind say what they will,
The sex are heavenly bodies still.
p. JAMES WHYTE- Simile.
Shall I, wasting in dispaire,
Dye because a woman's faire?
Or make pale my cheeks with care
Cause another's rosie are?
Be shee fairer than the day,
Or the flow'ry meads in May;
If she be not so to me,

What care I how faire shee be?

q.

GEO. WITHER- Mistresse of Philarete.
Percy's Reliques.

And now I see with eye serene,
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller betwixt life and death;
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill.
WORDSWORTH-She Was a Phantom of
Delight.

r.

Alas! to seize the moment
When heart inclines to heart,
And press a suit with passion,
Is not a woman's part.

If man come not to gather
The roses where they stand,
They fade among their foliage.
They cannot seek his hand.

b. BRYANT Song. Trans. from the Spanish of Iglesias. Duncan Gray cam' here to woo

Ha, ha! the wooing o't!

On blithe yule night when we were fu;
Ha, ha! the wooing o't!

Maggie coost her head fu' high,
Looked asklent and unco skeigh,
Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh:
Ha, ha! the wooing o't!
BURNS-Duncan Gray.

C.

He that would win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the lady from,
And with the other pull her home.
d.

BUTLER-Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto I.
Line 449.

"Tis an old lesson; Time approves it true,
And those who know it best, deplore it most;
When all is won that all desire to woo,
The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost:
Youth wasted, minds degraded, honour lost.
These are thy fruits, successful Passion!
these!

If, kindly cruel, early Hope is crost,
Still to the last it rankles, a disease,

Not to be cured when Love itself forgets to please.

e.

BYRON-Childe Harold. Canto II.

St. 35.

J. CAMPBELL The Maid's Remonstrance.

And if he wrong'd our brother, -Heav'n forgive

The man by whom so many brethren live!
h. CRABBE-The Borough. Letter XVII.

Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?
BEN JONSON--The Forest.

Song.