 | 1841 - 908 sider
...hours of ease, Fantastic, coy, and bard to please, And variable as the shade, By the light, quiv'ring aspen made : When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Scotl. Many obtain for themselves a fictitious excellence by dying in youth. The glowing predictions... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1841 - 358 sider
...day. Go, visit thou, in their distress, THE WIDOW and the FATHERLESS. 1830. A TALE WITHOUT A NAME. " O woman ! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " SCOTT'* Marmion, canto vi.... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - 1901 - 938 sider
...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,... | |
 | Jerome Mitchell - 1987 - 284 sider
...mistress are both named Constance. Moreover, Scott's interruption of his narrative in VI.xxx, beginning "O Woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain, coy, and hard to please," recalls the Man of Law's frequent interruptions, especially his apostrophes to the two wicked mothers-in-law;... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1986 - 626 sider
...civilisation, coronets as well as tiaras, real crowns as well 1 Probably these lines from Martnion xxx: O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! as real diamonds. If they were artists, it was from the common civilisation of both sexes that they... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 sider
...(Vi263-65). Sir Walter Scott uses the phrase in Marmion (1808), sending it on its way toward cliche: "O Woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain, coy,...anguish wring the brow, / A ministering angel thou!" (canto 6, stanza 30). 13.328 (355:13-14). the menthol cone - The cooling and aromatic effect of menthol... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - 2003 - 288 sider
...Captain Wentworth. Captain Harville for his part could point to Scott's lines, quoted in Sanditon (397), O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy and hard to please. And variable ... (VI.xxx) For the importance of constancy in Shakespeare, see Germaine Greer, Shakespeare, pp. 109-13.... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1993 - 724 sider
...assistance from Mile Read, 15 vols. (1926-27), VII, 191, 196. 37. Sir Walter Scott once described woman as "Uncertain, coy, and hard to please / And variable...as the shade / By the light quivering aspen made." Mannion, canto VI, stanza 30. 38. Barbara Taylor, Eve and the New Jerusalem : Socialism and Feminism... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1995 - 980 sider
...VI, Stanza XXX, 11. 1-6. The version of these lines in The Poetical Works Of Sir Walter Scott reads: O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! See The Poetical Works Of Sir Walter Scott. Ed. J. Logic Robertson. London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, New... | |
 | James A. Connolly - 1987 - 412 sider
...a flash of lightning or a bursting 8. The quotation is from Scott's "Marmion" and reads as follows: "O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel them I" shell that came screaming along, but as we neared the front we could see that the musketry... | |
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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... 
