| 1903 - 1172 pàgines
...the mortal live that ever did truly do justice to them? Oh, woman! In our hours of case, Uncertain, coy and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. When care and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thon. And in this city, noted for its beautiful... | |
| 1867 - 420 pàgines
..."&c.," when ho had taken what Beemed to answer his purpose : "O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade...and anguish wring the brow A ministering Angel thou .'" "The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! The Man, the Hermit, sigh'd — till Woman smiled."... | |
| New York State Bar Association - 1879 - 278 pàgines
...too old. (Laughter.) • Then some one else has said : "Oh! woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade...light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish cloud the brow A ministering angel thou." But that is old, and that is hackneyed. (Laughter.) Some... | |
| Iowa State Bar Association - 1901 - 938 pàgines
...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,... | |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1986 - 626 pàgines
...real crowns as well 1 Probably these lines from Martnion xxx: O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable as the shade...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! as real diamonds. If they were artists, it was from the common civilisation of both sexes that they... | |
| Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 pàgines
...in Marmion (1808), sending it on its way toward cliche: "O Woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, / And variable as the shade...anguish wring the brow, / A ministering angel thou!" (canto 6, stanza 30). 13.328 (355:13-14). the menthol cone - The cooling and aromatic effect of menthol... | |
| Peter Gay - 1993 - 724 pàgines
...Mile Read, 15 vols. (1926-27), VII, 191, 196. 37. Sir Walter Scott once described woman as "Uncertain, coy, and hard to please / And variable as the shade / By the light quivering aspen made." Mannion, canto VI, stanza 30. 38. Barbara Taylor, Eve and the New Jerusalem : Socialism and Feminism... | |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1995 - 980 pàgines
...these lines in The Poetical Works Of Sir Walter Scott reads: O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! See The Poetical Works Of Sir Walter Scott. Ed. J. Logic Robertson. London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, New... | |
| James A. Connolly - 1987 - 412 pàgines
...quotation is from Scott's "Marmion" and reads as follows: "O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel them I" shell that came screaming along, but as we neared the front we could see that the musketry... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pàgines
...we weave, When first we practise to deceive! 10034 Marmlon O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, u 10035 Redgauntlet The ae half of the warld thinks the tither daft. 1 0036 Rob Roy But with the morning... | |
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