| Charles Godfrey Leland - Europe - 1855 - 376 pages
...party!" Here a general burst of laughter took place, broken by Gertrude Du Val's remarking — "'0 woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !' " "Oh, undoubtedly," rejoined Wolf.... | |
| Walter Scott - English poetry - 1855 - 914 pages
...Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying tliirst !" XXX. O, Woman ! in our hours of case, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By tlie light quivering a*pen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou 1... | |
| Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1856 - 320 pages
...r-SW^WN!giW^^^^W^^^I^aG\ -,,7'"l\3 BY MRS. GREY, AtTTHOB OF "IHE LlIIIiZ WIFE," " YOUNG pnllfi DONHA," ETC. Oh, woman l in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen mudo. When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! SCOTT. LONDON: G. ROUTLEDGE... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1856 - 624 pages
...Like mist before the zephyr's sigh. Seotl's Rokeby. O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uneertain, eoy, 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 thon. .VrnH's Mun,tion. Still panting... | |
| United States - 1922 - 576 pages
...than a day on the river or an evening at a night-club for its fulfillment. The poet who wrote : "O Woman, in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy and hard to please, "When pain and anguish wrack the brow, a ministering angel, thou!" is altogether a back-number. One... | |
| American essays - 1916 - 892 pages
...eludes him. There is hardly a man who would not to-day echo Sir Walter Scott's familiar lines, — O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. It is not woman's fault. The poetry of the world is filled with the words ' to win' and 'to woo'; one... | |
| American essays - 1916 - 928 pages
...him. There is hardly a man who would not to-day echo Sir Walter Scott's familiar lines, — O Woman 1 in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. It is not woman's fault. The poetry of the world is filled with the words ' to win' and 'to woo'; one... | |
| Genealogy - 1891 - 760 pages
...from our first great poet, Shakespeare's — "Frailty, thy name is woman ! " Or with Scott's — О woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. (Afaruiion, c. vi., s. 30. MAC THE LAMP ACRE.1 ["BITS ABOUT EDINBURGH"— No. 3.] THE ancient collegiate... | |
| 1908 - 752 pages
...worth \vhile to take a second ballot on the question. The majority of them belong to the fair sex. " O woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. When labour problems knit the brow, You're always ready for a row." SCOTT (amended). Tothelooker-on,thedoubt... | |
| Iowa State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1901 - 938 pages
...cheerful laughter. It was Walter Scott who sang : — "Oh Woman! In our hour of ease. Inconstant, ooy and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aap.? n made; When pain and anguish wriug the brow, A ministering angel Hum!" The ladies: Mother, sister,... | |
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