 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...  The ATO Palm - Sayfa 2031892Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 534 sayfa
...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,... | |
 | 1840 - 378 sayfa
...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,... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 sayfa
...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,... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 336 sayfa
...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,... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 388 sayfa
...prolonged their lives at the risk of her own. 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,... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1841 - 358 sayfa
...day. Go, visit thou, in their distress, THE WIDOW and the FATHERLESS. 1830. A TALE WITHOUT A NAME. " O woman ! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " SCOTT'* Marmion, canto vi. PART I. HE had no friend on earth but thee ; No hope in heaven above... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1841 - 324 sayfa
...to those brave fellows who though in agony, silently but significantly expressed their gratitude. " Oh woman in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspin made, When pain and anguish wring the brow A... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 sayfa
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" XXX. O, now Each proud oppressor's mortal foe." — " Enough, enough ; si And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | 1841 - 300 sayfa
...and supported the dreary path which leads to the grave. The poet was mistaken when he sung — " O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please." That is a calumny upon their virtues ; but he does them justice when he adds: — • " When pain and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 380 sayfa
...or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst!" 25» XXX. 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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