 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - Počet stránok 784
...Тпомпох. Sir W. Scott has many allusions to this tree ; particularly in the wellknown lines, — " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen mad«, when pain or sicknests rends the brow, A ministering angel thou." Soil, Situation, Sfc. As the... | |
 | Mortimer Delmar (fict.name.) - 1838 - Počet stránok 1118
...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...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! SCOTT. WE must now give an eye to the affairs of another of our fair friends, and seek the retirement... | |
 | Počet stránok 456
...she's scolding her maid. EXTRACTS. THE THREE PICTURES. (Continued from page 111.) PICTURE III. " Oli ! woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard...to please, And variable as the shade By the light, quiv'ring aspen made, When pain and unguish wring the brow, A minist'ring angel thou. SCOTT. " Good... | |
 | John Angell James - 1838 - Počet stránok 228
...yield it. " Oh woman, in our hours of naw, Uncertain, coy, :uu! him! to please, And variable as tins shade By the light, quivering aspen made, When pain...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" Unwilling, and, indeed, unable to subscribe to the former part of this description, I do most readily... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1838 - Počet stránok 226
...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 - 1838 - Počet stránok 228
...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 - 1838 - Počet stránok 496
...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 - 1838 - Počet stránok 202
...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch - 1839 - Počet stránok 190
...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...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " This he handed to her, saying that of the compliment contained in the two last lines she was certainly... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - Počet stránok 264
...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...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !JS OSSIAN'S POEMS. Ossian's poems have more charms for youth than for more advanced age. The eternal... | |
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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! 
