FAIR WORDS ABOUT FAIR WOMAN. GATHERED FROM THE POETS BY O. B. BUNCE. "A Gorgious Gallery of Gallant Inventions, garnished and TITLE OF AN OLD ENGLISH MISCELLANY. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON. COMPANY, From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: That show, contain, and nourish all the world. SHAKESPEARE. A woman of sense and manners is the finest and most delicate part of God's creation; the glory of her Maker, and the great instance of His singular regard to man; His darling creature to whom He gave the best gift either God could bestow or man receive. DEFOE. Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears An' then she made the lasses O. BURNS. Oh! if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues would he see reposing therein ! RICHTER. |