GENTLE READER, in perusing this book, be pleased to understand that I have only wandered in the fair fields of Literature, to gather here and there a flower which struck me as tributary to the homage civilized man, in every country, is ready to pay to the fairest portion of creation. There are thousands still unculled ; but my object in this little work has been rather to present a select bouquet of literary blossoms, than to attempt to collect all that may

INDEX.

PAGE

Actions, Her Endearing
Actions, Graceful
Active in her Sympathies -
Affection, Her
All in All to her Lover
Ambition not desira
Amiability, Her
A Ministering Angel

· Lowell, Swain, Cowper 1
Milton

2
- Bellew

3
· Pinckney

3
Vanbrugh, Sir C. Sedley - 4
• Addison -

4
- Shakespeare

5
· Byron, Massey, Balfour,
Bennoch, Mungo Park,
Shakespeare

5
- Lord Herbert, Akenside 10
· Dickens, Bulwer, Beresford 11
- Dryden, Shakespeare 13
· Dickens

13
- Edward Philips, Byron 14
- Booth

14
Shakespeare, Rochester 15
Yonge, Shakespeare, Brent,
Schiller, Logan

15
Sir R. Steele, Shakespeare 18

Angelic Beauty, Her
Angelic Nature, Her
Anger, In her Moods of
An Anxious One
Apostrophized, How
Attractions, Her Sweet
Attractions, Her Varied
Attributes of

Attributes, Her Peculiar

B.

18

Bashfulness, Her Maiden - - Fordyce
Beauty, Her

Greene, Chaucer, Byron,
Shakespeare, Lee, Massey,

Cowley, Dryden
Beauty, Her, augmented in the

Eyes of a Weeping Lover Shakespeare

19

22

PAGE

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Beauty, Her Bashful

- Rev. John Logan

22
Beauteous Bearing of

- Milman

23
Beauty, Budding into

Shakespeare

23
Beauty, Her Budding

Wiffen

23
Beauty, Her, a World of Charms John Ford

24
Beauty, Her Contemplative - Byron

24
Beauty in Death, Her

- Sillery

24
Beauty, Her Dream-like - Bulwer

25
Beauty beyond Description, Her W. Grant

25
Beauty and Grace of, Ethereal - Byron

26
Beauty, Her Exceeding - Giles Fletcher, Akenside,

Drayton, Moore, E. Burke,
T. Randolph

27
Beauty in, Expressionless Byron

32
Beauty, elevated by Thoughtful
Expression, Her

Byron

33
Beauty unimpressive without
Expression

Hughes

33
Beauty compared to Flowers,
Her
· Hodge

34
Beauty, Her Recollection of
Faded
· W. M. Thackeray

34
Beauty, Her Gentle

Chaucer -

35
Beauty, Glorious in her - John Ford, Robert Greene 35
Beauty and Goodness combined,
Her

Duke

37
Beauty, In her Modest

- Thomson

37
Beauty, Her Monopoly of - Doran

38
Beauty, Her, compared to an
Orchard

R. Alison

38
Beauty, Her, beyond the Painter's
Art
· Pomfret

39
Beauty, Her Perennial - Lowell

40
Beauty tried by Poverty

Colton

40
Beauty, Dangerous Power of her R. B. Sheridan

40

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Beauty, Her Queenly

· Sir H. Wotton

41
Beauty, Her Reflected

Etienne Jodelle

41
Beauty in Repose, Her

Sir J. Suckling

42
Beauty, Respect inspired by her Byron

43
Beauty, Her, compared to Roses J. Wilbye

43
Beauty with Sense, Her, irresist-
ible

- Bickerstaff, Jerningham,

Akenside
Beauty's Spell, Her

Shakespeare

45
Beauty, Her, likened to the Sun Charles Wolfe -

46
Beauty Supreme, Her

Earl of Oxford

46
Beauty, Soul-less, repellent in A. Tennyson

47
Beauty, Serenity of her

W. M. Praed

47
Beauty, Unconscious of her · Earl of Halifax, Rev. John

Logan

47
Beauty, Her, best when Unal-
loyed

Massinger

48
Beauty, Unfading Nature of her Stephen Massett

48
Beauty, Her, augmented by
Virtue

Addison

49
Beauty, Her Winning - Chaucer, Rev. John Logan 49
Bedchamber, Her

Keats, Shakespeare - 49
Bedchamber of a Woman of
Rank in olden times

Rev. C. Maturin

50
Benevolence, Her

Dryden

51
Blessing, A

- Lowell

52
Blush, Her

· Gray

52
Blush, Her, Eloquent

· Dr. Donne

53
Bosom, Her

Gerald Massey

53

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Calculating, A.
Castles in the Air, Her
Caution to
Character, Her Varied

C.
• Shakespeare
· Lloyd
- Sylvester
· Marston.

53
54
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