 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1848 - 320 pages
...of the true future. CHAPTER VIII. MISS MATTJRIN'S VISIT, AND THE CONFUSION OF HENRY 'GOSP1TCH. " 0, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, * * * * When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " SIB WAITER SCOTT. WEARY... | |
 | 1849 - 778 pages
...variety is necessary for all. Woman's charm is well known to consist, as the poet says, in her being Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; And variable as the shade By the light-quivering aspen made. And observe, in this admirable description, that 'tiiicerfetn' is part... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1864 - 1126 pages
...medicine. As Sir Walter Scott eloquently and poetically puts it — " 0 woman ! in our hours of cafe, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable as the shade By the liRh: quivering aspen made ; When pain and angui.-h wrings ihe brow, A ministering angel thoti! " Does... | |
 | M Joseph Denison - 1849 - 276 pages
...many a dirge recall. LINES UPON SEEING THE MAKBLE GROUP OF P^ITUS AND ARRIA, AT A VILLA NEAR ROME.* "Oh! woman, in our hours of ease, " Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; " Let pain and anguish wring our brow, " A ministering angel thou !" Mannion. " When the banner of... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...variety is necessary for all. Woman's charm is well known to consist, as the poet says, in her being — Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; And variable as the shade By the light-quivering aspen made. And observe, in this admirable description, that " uncertain" is part of... | |
 | Georgiana Fullerton - English fiction - 1849 - 330 pages
...them all back, Maud ; we must walk now." " Any thing to get rid of me this morning, I suppose — ' O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please !' Well,. ' when pain and sorrow wring my brow,' Margaret, I hope you will be a ' ministering angel,'... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1866 - 674 pages
...pans Moulton organs — Weiten ting tangs." А. О. Л*. P. THE ASPBN TUBE (Populas trémula.)— " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to pleas? ; And variable us the shade ]iy the light-quivering aspen made," &c. The other day, while dipping... | |
 | Young wife - 1850 - 304 pages
...and willing in exercising their kind offices. The poet, who has apostrophized woman, as in the " Hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; And...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made;" goes on to give her the meed of praise for sympathy and succour in the time of affliction ; " When... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" O Woman ! in onr honrs of ease, Uneertain, eoy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light qniv'ring aspen made ; When pain and angnish wring the brow, A ministering angel thon ! — Searee... | |
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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... 
