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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... "
The Belfast Monthly Magazine - Page 289
1811
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Aristocracy, Or, Life in the City, Issue 1

Joseph A. Nunes - 1848 - 272 pages
...the bell, while Wharton and Carrol continued their walk. CHAPTER VI. O, woman ! in our hours of case, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, — \Vhen pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! MARMION. WE must...
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The Lady's Present: Or, Beauties of Female Character

Ariel Ivers Cummings - 1849 - 200 pages
...in all its truth and life, the glowing language of the poet, when he sang, " 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 !" Have you not felt indeed...
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Machinists' Monthly Journal: Devoted to the Technical and ..., Volume 15

1903 - 1172 pages
...Where did the mortal live that ever did truly do justice to them? Oh, woman! In our hours of case, Uncertain, coy and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. When care and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thon. And in this city, noted...
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The Dartmouth, Volume 1

1867 - 420 pages
...short with an "&c.," when ho had taken what Beemed to answer his purpose : "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 world was sad !...
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Proceedings ..., Volume 2

New York State Bar Association - 1879 - 278 pages
...about that is it is too old. (Laughter.) • Then some one else has said : "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 and anguish cloud the brow A ministering angel thou." But that is old, and that...
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Iowa State Bar Association ...

Iowa State Bar Association - 1901 - 938 pages
...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,...
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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Volume 29

Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1988 - 626 pages
...well as tiaras, real crowns as well 1 Probably these lines from Martnion xxx: 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! as real diamonds. If they...
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Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses

Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 pages
...Scott uses the phrase in Marmion (1808), sending it on its way toward cliche: "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!" (canto 6, stanza 30)....
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The Cultivation of Hatred

Peter Gay - 1993 - 724 pages
...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...
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The Clockmaker: Series One, Two and Three

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1995 - 980 pages
...and Byron are amazin' favorites; they go down much better than them oldfashioned 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 off...
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