5/5 Not that we have not, in the gay capitals of Europe, paid our brief vows to forms more richly beautiful; not that we have not been charmed by a more brilliant genius, by a more tutored grace. But there is that in Gertrude which I never saw before,--the union of the childish and the intellectual, an ethereal simplicity, a temper that is never dimmed, a tenderness--O God! let me not speak of her virtues, for they only tell me how little she is suited to the earth. |