| 1842 - 682 pages
...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 ; ' and, on finding that ' grief and danger were wringing his brow,' in VOL. x. 36 the form of impending clcrkhood,... | |
| 1842 - 694 pages
...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 ; ' and, on finding that ' grief and danger were wringing his brow,' in VOL. x. 36 the form of impending clerkhood,... | |
| Charles Henry Knox - 1842 - 968 pages
...fortunate—he could not lie in better hands, or better company. As the Wizard of the North says— " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please — As variable as the shade, By the li;.;ht, quivering aspen made— Wlien pain and anguish wring... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1842 - 718 pages
...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...squire, or groom, one cup to hring Of Messed water, from the spriog, To slake my dying thirst P — XXX. 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 paln and anruish wring the hrow A mimstering... | |
| 1843 - 1380 pages
...of us. So we speak with a disguise. Sir Walter Scott forgot himself when he spoke of them: — " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ;" as if they were stormy peterals, whose appearance indicated shipwreck and troubled waters on the... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...Till pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmured — ' Is there none, Of all my halls have ss is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb !' 0, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1844 - 384 pages
...on us. Yes, Scott, that profound reader of the human heart, was right when he said of them — U O! woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and sickness wring lue brow A ministering angel thou." The feelings of Strathern became softened... | |
| General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmured, — - Is there none, Of all my halls have nursed, Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, f O woman ! in our hours of ease, I Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, I And variable as the shade... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 282 pages
...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...blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst ! " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade... | |
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