 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 ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the...  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Side 118af Walter Scott - 1884 - 536 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
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...look as men confounded. Well might Sir Walter Scott say — " О woman ! in our hours of еазе, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as...aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, Л ministering angel thou!" Our third illustration displays another phase of the civilisation ofthat... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1855 - 880 sider
...acquiescent had they become since the snow-storm. Crayon's word was law, nud he felt like a potentate. "O woman, in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made." And the poet might have added, without spoiling the verse — u Striving hy every art to rule, VVilliul... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismark, North Ludlow Beamish - 1855 - 492 sider
...often changes without reason : our own firmness is not sufficient to fetter this mutable goddess " Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made." Such is fortune, without even the redeeming quality which the poet allows to the lady :— " When pain... | |
 | Thomas Litchfield (novelist.) - 1856 - 330 sider
...see — we shall see — we shall see !" Having said these words he left the room. CHAPTEB III. Oh woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow, A minstering angel thou ! Canto VI. XXX. 1URMION. OF all the emanations of the Divine power, and creation... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 sider
...drew her from the sight away, Till pain rung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmur'd, — " Is there none, Of all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or...blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst 1" XXX. O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade... | |
 | Joseph Breck - 1856 - 410 sider
...respect, as well as in its general appearance • and to which Walter Scott alludes in his lines: " 0, woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard...shade By the light quivering Aspen made; When pain or sickness rends the brow, A ministering angel thou." The Weeping Poplar has been introduced from... | |
 | Joseph Nash McDowell - 1856 - 15 sider
...crucifixion, and the first in the morning of his resurrection at his sepulchre. " Oh, woman, in thine hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please...By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and angui<h wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." I do not deprecate either mental, moral or mechanical... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1856 - 320 sider
...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... | |
 | Richard Deakin - 1857 - 716 sider
...Aspen tree a favourite subject of poets. Sir W. Scott allndes to it in the following lines : — " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard...shade By the light quivering Aspen made, When pain or sickness rends the brow, A ministering angel thou." " Old Gerard" quaintly compared the leaves of... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 sider
...from the sight away, Till pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmur' d — " Is there none, 73 Of all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or groom,...blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst ? " O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade... | |
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