 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...  Flowers of fiction - Página 1701837Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | ...she's scolding her maid. EXTRACTS. THE THREE PICTURES. (Continued from page 111.) PICTURE III. " Oli ! woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light, quiv'ring aspen made, When pain and unguish wring the brow,... | |
 | Joseph Holt Ingraham - 1839 - 273 páginas
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1839
...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,... | |
 | John O'Brien Grant - 1839
...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 204 páginas
...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,... | |
 | ...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,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840
...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
...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
...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,... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 288 páginas
...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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