...they quite disappear and are lost. 2 1 Johnson (Boswell), i. 458. (Croker's ed.). CHAP. VI. WOMAtt. 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 sickness cloud the brow,...

...less of us. So we speak with a disguise. Sir Walter Scott forgot himself when he spoke of them: — " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ;" as if they were stormy peterals, whose appearance indicated shipwreck and troubled waters on the...

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...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,...

...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !' O, | From the Irtish and Volga to the Persian Golf, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow,...

...on us. Yes, Scott, that profound reader of the human heart, was right when he said of them — U O! woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and sickness wring lue brow A ministering angel thou." The feelings of Strathern became softened...

...on us. Yes, Scott, that profound reader of the human heart, was right when he said of them — "O! woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and sickness wring the brow A ministering angel thou." The feelings of Strathern became softened...

...promptitude which you did, and which had quite as much to do with saving my life as yo\H CHAPTER XII. " Oh woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, When pain and sickness wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." — SCOTT. THE rumours respecting...

...Like poplar leaves when zephyr fans the grove ; " and, best of all, Walter Scott, in his lines, — " 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 or sickness rends the brow,...