 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 92 Seiten
...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...quivering aspen made, — When pain and anguish wring the brow. A ministering angel thou ! — Searee were the piteous aeeents said, When, with the Itaron's... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1839 - 838 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 534 Seiten
...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 - 1839 - 280 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 378 Seiten
...Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy,...quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the baron's casque,... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 Seiten
...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...quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, 8 A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 388 Seiten
...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...quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! From being less frequented by travellers than most other places in... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 336 Seiten
...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...quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! From being less frequented by travellers than most other places in... | |
 | Isaac Butt - 1840 - 1124 Seiten
...which attend upon the duties of the dead, from the hour of dissolution. CHAPTER VI. O woman ! ever in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to...quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! Walter Scott. IT is not my intention to dwell upon the harrowing recollections... | |
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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! 
