 O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the...  A History of American Literature - Page 148by Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 513 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John William Carleton - 1851 - 726 pages
...strife without by expressions of concern and pity for the sufferer within. " Oh woman ! in oar honn of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." says the bard, and so say I ; at least so I said cordially on that sunny afternoon, as reclining at... | |
 | John O'Brien Grant - 1839 - 220 pages
...pocket, began to feel its influence, and dropped, insensibly, into a heavy slumber. CHAPTER XXIII. Oh, Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ! When pain and sorrow wring the brow A ministering angel thou ! Sm WALTER SCOTT. THE princess flew to the forest Jagdhaus,... | |
 | 534 pages
...unrelenting, remorseless foe. Never did man speak more truly of woman than Scott, when he sang, — " O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variahle as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the trow,... | |
 | Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch - 1839 - 190 pages
...met a copy which he had made several years before of those beautiful lines in Scott's Marmion — " O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | Joseph Holt Ingraham - 1839 - 280 pages
...found use for them! I consider my coat altogether comme il faut. But woman's tact and penetration! Oh, woman! " In our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please!" Fortune favor the wretch who has to pass the ordeal of your inquisitive and searching glance! I foresaw... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pages
...speech confounds the wise, And proudest princes veil their eyes Before their meanest slave. WOMAN. 0, woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1839 - 304 pages
...DUKE. VOL. III. LONDON : PRINTED BV SAMUEL BENTLEY, Bangor House, Shoe Lane. A NOVEL. BY MRS. GREY. Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 388 pages
...prolonged their lives at the risk of her own. Well might our great and good Scott say of women — O woman ! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 336 pages
...their lives at the risk of her own. VOL. nr. c Well might our great and good Scott say of women — O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
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