| Adrian Russell Terry - 1834 - 306 pages
...protection of whom, she devoted herself and the whole of her moderate fortune. "' 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." The Roman Catholic religion... | |
| 1836 - 436 pages
...for this, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " 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 augel them l" Unwilling, and, indeed,,nnable... | |
| 1836 - 432 pages
...for this, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " O woman ! in onr houn 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 !" Unwilling, and. indeed,... | |
| Michael Scott - 1836 - 462 pages
...utterance, or the fear of disturbing the dying moments of her lover made her dumb. " 0, Woman! in our hours of ease, . . Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the tight quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" Hearing... | |
| Michael Scott - 1837 - 330 pages
...or the fear of disturbing the dying moments of her lover made her d umb. " О 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, ^V ministering angel thou !" Hearing a bustle in... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...of these, the following lines are not always inappropriate or inapplicable. Oh Woman I in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; And variable as the shade By the light qnivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! — Scott. The... | |
| 1837 - 590 pages
...spirit," second only to that of the mighty one of Avon, " О woman ! in our hours of ease So tickle, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the lilhí, quivering- aspen made ; When care and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" And... | |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1838 - 370 pages
...Byron are amazin' favorites; they go down much better than them old-fashioned staves o' Watts. " Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." If I didn't touch it... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 794 pages
...has many allusions to this tree ; particularly in the wellknown lines, — " Oh, 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 or sicknesss rends the brow, A ministering angel thou." Sou, Situation, ¿Jr.... | |
| 456 pages
...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... | |
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