| George Barrell Emerson - 1846 - 656 pages
...leaves when zephyr fans the grove ; " and, best of all, Walter Scott, in his lines, — "Oh, worhan! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By ihe light quivering aspen made. When pain or sickness rends the brow, A ministering angel thou." The... | |
| Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1846 - 838 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 the form of impending clerkhood, fled... | |
| Maria Jane McIntosh - 1843 - 234 pages
...promptitude which you did, and which had quite as much to do with saving my life as yo\H CHAPTER XII. " Oh woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, When pain and sickness wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." — SCOTT. THE rumours respecting... | |
| Charles Delucena Meigs - 1848 - 712 pages
...husbands had hearts like the nether millstone. Notwithstanding the poet has characterized her as being, " in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light trembling aspen made,'' she is faithful and tnie. She follows the fortunes of her mate, who has gained... | |
| Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1848 - 696 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 the form of impending clerkhood, fled... | |
| Blanchard Jerrold - 1848 - 320 pages
...of the true future. CHAPTER VIII. MISS MATTJRIN'S VISIT, AND THE CONFUSION OF HENRY 'GOSP1TCH. " 0, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, * * * * When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " SIB WAITER SCOTT. WEARY... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 pages
...variety is necessary for all. Woman's charm is well known to consist, as the poet says, in her being " h- light-quivering aspen made." And observe, in this admirable description, that " uncertain" is part... | |
| 1849 - 778 pages
...variety is necessary for all. Woman's charm is well known to consist, as the poet says, in her being Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; And variable as the shade By the light-quivering aspen made. And observe, in this admirable description, that 'tiiicerfetn' is part... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1864 - 1126 pages
...medicine. As Sir Walter Scott eloquently and poetically puts it — " 0 woman ! in our hours of cafe, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable as the shade By the liRh: quivering aspen made ; When pain and angui.-h wrings ihe brow, A ministering angel thoti! " Does... | |
| Georgiana Fullerton - 1849 - 330 pages
...them all back, Maud ; we must walk now." " Any thing to get rid of me this morning, I suppose — ' O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please !' Well,. ' when pain and sorrow wring my brow,' Margaret, I hope you will be a ' ministering angel,'... | |
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