 | James Grant - 1847 - 388 pages
...yet raging with as much fury as ever. CHAPTER XIII. THE SISTER OF CHARITY. " O woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " Marmion. WHEN Ronald again became conscious that he was yet in the land of the living, he found... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 494 pages
...brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love. — OTWAY. O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! — SIR WALTEH SCOTT. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And... | |
 | 1916 - 892 pages
...hardly a man who would not to-day echo Sir Walter Scott's familiar lines, — O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. It is not woman's fault. The poetry of the world is filled with the words ' to win' and 'to woo'; one... | |
 | 1833 - 212 pages
...sbrink not, we of nobler clay May temper it to bear,— it is but for a day. O, woman! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou! SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental day, Free, gen'rous, and refin'd, Descend... | |
 | 1891 - 760 pages
...poet, Shakespeare's — "Frailty, thy name is woman ! " Or with Scott's — О woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. (Afaruiion, c. vi., s. 30. MAC THE LAMP ACRE.1 ["BITS ABOUT EDINBURGH"— No. 3.] THE ancient collegiate... | |
 | 1867 - 420 pages
...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...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 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1986 - 626 pages
...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...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 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1995 - 980 pages
...favorites; they go down much better than them oldfashioned staves o' Watts. "Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." If I didn't touch it off to the nines it's a pity. I never heerd you preach so well, says one, since... | |
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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... 
