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 idéal of a poet's first mistress.—Life of Schiller.