... that is said about gentleness, modesty, and timidity in the heroine of a novel or poem, give me the mixture of pathos and grandeur exhibited in the character of Meg Merrilies; or the wild dignity of Diana Vernon , with all the freedom of a Highland maiden in her step and in her eye; or the ethereal figure Annot Lyle,--the lightest and most fairy figure that ever trod the turf by moonlight; or even the lofty ...