 | Thomas Brown (the elder, pseud.) - 1818 - 714 pages
...may be presented to him on his road through life with his new partner, still will he have to say — Oh ! woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And varying as the uncertain shade By the light trembling aspen made, When care and sorrow rend our brow,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...groom, one cup to hring Of hlessed \vater, from the spring, To slako my dying thirst !" — XXXI. 0, 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 hrew, A ministering... | |
 | 1819 - 504 pages
...object beloved. l(1 These beautiful lines from Marmiou- .night have furnished him with the bint — " Oh Woman ! in our hours of ease, , . Uncertain, coy,...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; Wlicn pain and ticknftt wring the brm, A ministering angel theu :" Or these from Dodsley's fragment,... | |
 | 1820 - 562 pages
...real adversity, are " calm as a summer's sea, when not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface." " O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...And variable as the shade, By the light quivering aspin made; Yet when pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel tliou!" " Our children."... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 648 pages
...conclusive as those which influenced many former annotations.— Eo. THE PHILANTHROPIST. NO. V. " O Woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the (bade By the light quivering aspen made— But when affliction wrings the brow, A ministering angel... | |
 | 1821 - 780 pages
...«ithout whom Paradise would have bloomed and blossomed in vain, and man have lived a gloomy being. "O Woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; When sorrow marks our languid broW, A ministering angel thou. Though the rules of our institution... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst t" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made f When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 392 pages
...of universal man has acknowledged them to be true, arc the exquisite lines of our mighty minstrel. t 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 biotr, A ministering angel thou! My recovery... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm graf von Bismark - Cavalry drill and tactics - 1827 - 538 pages
...mutable goddess (1). (C) Petty warfare. The strategical object of war is the defeat of the enemy*. (1) " Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade, By the light quivering aspen made." Such is fortune, without even possessing the redeeming quality which the poet allows to the lady "... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...the spring, To s hike my dying thirst!» — XXX. O, Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, aud hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspea made, — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the... | |
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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 ; there ?" — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou... 
