| Joseph A. Nunes - 1848 - 272 páginas
...the bell, while Wharton and Carrol continued their walk. CHAPTER VI. O, woman ! in our hours of case, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, — \Vhen pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! MARMION. WE must... | |
| Ariel Ivers Cummings - 1849 - 200 páginas
...in all its truth and life, the glowing language of the poet, when he sang, " 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 !" Have you not felt indeed... | |
| 1903 - 1172 páginas
...Where did 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... | |
| 1867 - 420 páginas
...short with an "&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 By the light quivering Aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering Angel thou .'" "The world was sad !... | |
| New York State Bar Association - 1879 - 278 páginas
...about that is it is 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 By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish cloud the brow A ministering angel thou." But that is old, and that... | |
| Iowa State Bar Association - 1901 - 938 páginas
...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 - 1988 - 626 páginas
...well as tiaras, 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 By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! as real diamonds. If they... | |
| Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 páginas
...Scott uses the phrase 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 / By the light quivering aspen made; / When pain and anguish wring the brow, / A ministering angel thou!" (canto 6, stanza 30).... | |
| Peter Gay - 1993 - 724 páginas
...assistance from 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... | |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1995 - 980 páginas
...and Byron are amazin' favorites; they go down much better than them oldfashioned staves o' Watts. "Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." If I didn't touch it off... | |
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