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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... "
Briefe an eine deutsche Edelfrau über die neuesten englischen Dichter - Page 376
by Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 741 pages
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Moralities for home, Volume 539

George Etell Sargent - 1854 - 172 pages
...enough now.' Mary thought so too ; and if it could be said of her, as one has said of her sex, — • ' O, woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,' BO also was it true of her— ' But when affliction clouds our brow, A ministering angel thou.' She...
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Contemporary Plays: Sixteen Plays from the Recent Drama of England and America

Thomas H. Dickinson, Jack Randall Crawford - 1925 - 666 pages
...unpleasant — or a headache is a very good thing — it is delightful — I always say to myself: "O woman — in our hours of ease — Uncertain, coy and hard to please. When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." LILY. We ought to have "Auld Long...
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Contemporary Plays: Sixteen Plays from the Recent Drama of England and America

Thomas H. Dickinson, Jack Randall Crawford - 1925 - 664 pages
...unpleasant — or a headache is a very good thing — it is delightful — I always say to myself: "O woman — in our hours of ease — Uncertain, coy and hard to please, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." LILY. We ought to have "Auld Lang...
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The Problem-play and Its Influence on Modern Thought and Life

Ramsden Balmforth - 1928 - 168 pages
...have to be pulled back by the men. When order is restored Blanco again derisively responds : " ' Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please — ' " Is my face scratched ? " " ' When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
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Modern Eloquence: A Library of the World's Best Spoken Thought, Volume 2

Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 504 pages
...power." As the poet — what's-hisname — so beautifully and feelingly and touchingly observes: Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Next to God, we...
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The Young Woman's Journal, Volume 7

1896 - 594 pages
...that the voice has said its say for this occasion and need be listened to no more. THE NEW WOMAN. "0 woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy and hard...to please, And variable as the shade By the light of quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Who has...
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The Forum, Volume 68

1922 - 576 pages
...more than a day on the river or an evening at a night-club for its fulfillment. The poet who wrote : "O Woman, in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy and hard to please, "When pain and anguish wrack the brow, a ministering angel, thou!" is altogether a back-number. One...
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The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, Volume 9

George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - 1903 - 674 pages
...in the night-watches, the doctor's advice began to fructify. He found himself dreamily murmuring: " 'O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.' " Then, he grew sleepier and mixed his quotations : " ' But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We...
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The Bystander: An Illustrated Weekly, Devoted to Travel ..., Volume 19

1908 - 752 pages
...worth \vhile to take a second ballot on the question. The majority of them belong to the fair sex. " O woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. When labour problems knit the brow, You're always ready for a row." SCOTT (amended). Tothelooker-on,thedoubt...
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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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