 | 1816 - 420 pages
...availed himself of this circumstance, in a passage which speaks to all hearts its truth and beauty :— O woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard...By the light, quivering, aspen made, When pain and sickness cloud the brow, A ministering angel them. WALTER SCOTT. Among the various species of exotic... | |
 | Elizabeth Thomas - 1816 - 312 pages
...the conversation then took a different turn. CHAP. XXI. Oh •woman, in our hours of ease, Uneertain, 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 tuuu. BCOTT. SIR CHARLES gradually recovered from the ef.... | |
 | 1834 - 918 pages
...too deep for utterance, or the fear of disturhing the dying moments of her lover made her dumb. " O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable u the »hade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering... | |
 | 1824 - 462 pages
...WALDEGRAVE. ANSWER TO THE "BACHELOR'S FARE," FPAfcA appeared in the KaleUolcopc of February 11, 1823. Oh, woman! In our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...shade By the light quivering aspen made: When pain and sickness wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. Scott. Though endless variety, little satiety. Great... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...object beloved. These beautiful lines from Martnion might have furnished him \tTth the hint — » " Oh Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When fain and tic/aiets irring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" Or these from Dodsley's fragment, entitled... | |
 | Mrs. Ross - 1818 - 526 pages
...talents are not worth having; at least, I never should regret they were withheld from any of my friends." "Oh, woman '. in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as is the shade By the light quivering aspen made — " " How great a revolution of sentiment does a fleeting... | |
 | Thomas Brown (the elder, pseud.) - 1818 - 714 pages
...may be presented to him on his road through life with his new partner, still will he have to say — Oh ! woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And varying as the uncertain shade By the light trembling aspen made, When care and sorrow rend our brow,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...groom, one cup to hring Of hlessed \vater, from the spring, To slako my dying thirst !" — XXXI. 0, 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 hrew, A ministering... | |
 | 1819 - 504 pages
...object beloved. l(1 These beautiful lines from Marmiou- .night have furnished him with the bint — " Oh Woman ! in our hours of ease, , . Uncertain, coy,...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; Wlicn pain and ticknftt wring the brm, A ministering angel theu :" Or these from Dodsley's fragment,... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 pages
...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...shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, lVhen ,... | |
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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... 
