...subsided at once. Following the tender instincts of his heart, young Willoughby had remembered him of " Woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ;" the form of impending clerkhood, fled to the bosom of a ministeringangel, who had often smoothed...

...turned almost broken-hearted away from what they once valued so highly ? II. — THE REUNION. " Oh woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; But when affliction wrings the brow, A ministering angel thou." IT was autumn : the foliage had put...

...know whether to interpret it as a compliment or a satire, concedes this much to the fair sex. " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, When pain and sickness rend the brow, A ministering angel thou ! La Sceur Therese, continued some time...

...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...

...length, a naturally good constitution and the gentle assiduities of an affectionate wife — " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ! When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel, then art mon !" — restored him to the...

...Till pain wrung forth a lowly moan. And half he murmured, — "Is there none, Of all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of...water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst!" — XXX. O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And \ariable as the shade...

...she's scolding her 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...

...required. Sickness may call for this, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the ghiide By the light, quivering aspen made, When pain and anguidh wring the brow, A ministering angel...

...was his last : as he had never loved before, so he never loved again. Their courtship ended then. ' O woman, in our hours of ease, ' Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, ' When pain and anguish wring the brow, ' A ministering angel thou !' Thus saith the poet, and so far...

...unrelenting, remorseless foe. Never did man speak more truly of woman than Scott, when he sang, — " O 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 trow, Administering...