| 1849 - 742 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 " uncertain" is part of... | |
| 1887 - 678 pages
...Scott shows, in the death of Marmion, how the mind turns to the use of the natural generic appellation: O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to pleaie, ****** When pain and anguiih wring the brow, A ministering angel them. ALFRED GATTT, DD Despite... | |
| M Joseph Denison - 1849 - 276 pages
...a dirge recall. LINES UPON SEEING THE MAKBLE GROUP OF P^ITUS AND ARRIA, AT A VILLA NEAR ROME.* "Oh! woman, in our hours of ease, " Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; " Let pain and anguish wring our brow, " A ministering angel thou !" Mannion. " When the banner of... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...half he mnrmnr'd, — " Is there none, Of all my halls have nnrst, Page, sqnire, or groom, one enp to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" O Woman ! in onr honrs of ease, Uneertain, eoy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light qniv'ring... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...Till pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmured — ' Is there none, Of all my halls hare nurst, Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of...blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !' 0, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By... | |
| 1851 - 632 pages
...W. Scott, who compares the constant motion of the leaves to the versatility of the softer sex: " A woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the liliií quiv.iring aspm made, When pain or sickness rends the brow, A ministering angel thou." The... | |
| Charles Delucena Meigs - 1851 - 734 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 true. She follows the fortunes of her mate, who has gained... | |
| Douglas Jerrold - 1851 - 364 pages
...n me ! — can remember my own. Yes — now I apprehend ; my poem begins somehow thus — " ' Oh ! woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; But when pale sickness wrings the brow, A ministering angel thou ! ' " " Beautiful ! " cried John—"... | |
| Douglas William Jerrold - 1851 - 370 pages
...n me ! — can remember my own. Yes — now I apprehend ; my poem begins somehow thus — " ' Oh ! woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; But when pale sickness wrings the brow, A ministering angel thou ! ' " " Beautiful ! " cried John—"... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 626 pages
...presume, was thinking of the remark made in Marmum, when Clare brings water to the wounded knight : ' О WOMAN ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, Л ministering angel thou ! ' 530 Meister Karl's Sketch -Book.... | |
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