 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - American wit and humor - 1838 - 226 pages
...they go down much better than them oldfashioned staves o'. Watts. " Oh woman, in our hour of case, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen mode ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." If I didn't touch it off to... | |
 | John Angell James - Families - 1838 - 228 pages
...required. Sickness may call for this, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the ghiide By the light, quivering aspen made, When pain and anguidh wring the brow, A ministering angel... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst!" — XXX. O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And \ariable as the shade Bv the light quivering aspen made, — Wben pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | David Willard - Greenfield (Mass.) - 1838 - 202 pages
...was his last : as he had never loved before, so he never loved again. Their courtship ended then. ' O woman, in our hours of ease, ' Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, ' When pain and anguish wring the brow, ' A ministering angel thou !' Thus saith the poet, and so far... | |
 | Mortimer Delmar (fict.name.) - 1838 - 1118 pages
...moon. CHAPTER X. Oh woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to pleas* ; And iariable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! SCOTT. WE must now give an eye to the affairs of... | |
 | Fashion - 402 pages
...WIFE. THE WIFE. " 0 woman in oar hours of case Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable as is the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain, and sickness read the brow, A ministering angel thou !" WALTER SCOTT. Slanting over the immense wall by which the... | |
 | Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch - Astronomers - 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...By the light, quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " This he handed to her, saying that of the compliment... | |
 | 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...By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !JS OSSIAN'S POEMS. Ossian's poems have more charms... | |
 | 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...shade By the light quivering aspen made. When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! SCOTT IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: RICHARD... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1839 - 286 pages
...LONDON : PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, fiangor House, Shoe Lane. A NOVEL. BY MRS. GREY. Ob, woman! in out hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,...shade By the light quivering aspen made. When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel then ! SCOTT. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON : RICHARD... | |
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