No! It is but the better to perfect all those feminine graces, all those fascinating attributes, which render her the centre of attraction, and which delight and charm all those who breathe the atmosphere in which she moves; and, in the language of Mr. Burke, would make ten thousand swords leap from their scabbards to avenge the insult that might be offered to her. By her very meekness and beauty does she subdue all around her. The Grecian poet of old has told us where her power lies. "To woman what does nature give? Beauty she gives instead of darts; Beauty instead of shields imparts: Nor can the fire nor sword oppose The fair, victorious where she goes." We must recollect, however, that it is beauty of mind, of grace, of accomplishment; and not beauty of person alone, which constitutes her power. When the beautiful mother of mankind is described by the matchless poet, he mentions not one _purely_ physical trait of beauty. "Grace was in all her steps; heaven in her eye: In all her gestures dignity and love." When Juno too, tries the old and successful cheat of love with her imperial husband, the poet of antiquity makes her borrow the beauties of mind, rather than those of body. "The gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire; Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes." Even Waller, the sycophantic poet of a corrupt and profligate court, pays all due homage to the beauty of mind. "Oh, my lovely foe, Tell me where thy strength doth lie-- Where the power that _charms_ me so: In thy soul, or in thine eye."