text:  Just heavens! what a perpetual wonder it is this living breathing beauty! Throw all your metaphors to the winds--your poetic raptures--your ideals--your romance of position and of circumstance: look at a fair amiable cultivated woman as you meet her in the actual commonplace scenes of life: she is literally prosaically speaking the last consummate result of the creative power of nature and the gathered refinements of centuries of human civilization