 | 1839 - 430 pages
...favorites ; they go down much >ctter than them old fashioned staves o' Watts. 'Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain und anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou.' • If I did'nt touch it off to the nines, it's... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1839 - 898 pages
...SAMUBL UKUTLEY, Hangar House, Shoe Lane. THE DUKE. A NOVEL. BY MRS. GREY. Ob, woman ! in onr hoars or ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...shade By the light quivering aspen made. When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel tboa 1 SCOIT. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: RICHARD... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Canada - 1839 - 838 pages
...favorites; they go down muchbetter than them old-fashioned staves o' Watts. ' Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made : VVhcu pain and anguish wring the brow, A ioiuisttrim; ungelthon.' If I didn't touch it oil to the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 92 pages
...from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" xxx. O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uneertain, eoy, 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 ! — Searee were the piteous aeeents said, When,... | |
 | Fashion - 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, Administering... | |
 | Joseph Holt Ingraham - African American women - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 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...By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, 8 A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When,... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 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...By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! From being less frequented by travellers than most... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 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...By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! From being less frequented by travellers than most... | |
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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... 
