 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 ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Seite 46herausgegeben von - 1871Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 Seiten
...or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed 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 Bv the light quivering aspen made, — Wben pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | Mortimer Delmar (fict.name.) - 1838 - 1118 Seiten
...The happy couple immediately set off for the Baronet's estate, to spend the honey moon. CHAPTER X. Oh woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to pleas* ; And iariable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the... | |
 | Joseph Holt Ingraham - 1839 - 280 Seiten
...found use for them! I consider my coat altogether comme il faut. But woman's tact and penetration! Oh, woman! " In our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please!" Fortune favor the wretch who has to pass the ordeal of your inquisitive and searching glance! I foresaw... | |
 | John O'Brien Grant - 1839 - 220 Seiten
...pocket, began to feel its influence, and dropped, insensibly, into a heavy slumber. CHAPTER XXIII. Oh, Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ! When pain and sorrow wring the brow A ministering angel thou ! Sm WALTER SCOTT. THE princess flew... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1839 - 304 Seiten
...DUKE. VOL. III. LONDON : PRINTED BV SAMUEL BENTLEY, Bangor House, Shoe Lane. A NOVEL. BY MRS. GREY. Oh, 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,... | |
 | 534 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 Seiten
...speech confounds the wise, And proudest princes veil their eyes Before their meanest slave. WOMAN. 0, 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,... | |
 | 1840 - 378 Seiten
...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 By the light, quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 336 Seiten
...their lives at the risk of her own. VOL. nr. c Well might our great and good Scott say of women — 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,... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 Seiten
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — 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,... | |
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