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
| 1866 - 674 páginas
...pans Moulton organs — Weiten ting tangs." А. О. Л*. P. THE ASPBN TUBE (Populas trémula.)— " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to pleas? ; And variable us the shade ]iy the light-quivering aspen made," &c. The other day, while dipping... | |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1986 - 626 páginas
...civilisation, coronets as 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,... | |
| Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 páginas
...(Vi263-65). Sir Walter 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... | |
| Jocelyn Harris - 2003 - 288 páginas
...Wentworth. Captain Harville for his part could point to Scott's lines, quoted in Sanditon (397), O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy and hard to please. And variable ... (VI.xxx) For the importance of constancy in Shakespeare, see Germaine Greer, Shakespeare,... | |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1995 - 980 páginas
...Stanza XXX, 11. 1-6. The version of 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 By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
| James A. Connolly - 1987 - 412 páginas
...flash of lightning or a bursting 8. The 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 By the light quivering aspen made,— When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 páginas
...legendaires, 1991 edn, p. 1 1 6). hard to please: given 'undecided' (ii), compare Scott, Marmion vi xxx: O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. hard to please? The world is full of: compare Robert Louis Stevenson, Happy Thought (A Child's Garden... | |
| Helen Jacobus Apte - 1998 - 252 páginas
...spirited, yet gentle and flowing. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive." "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 A... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...last. 10033 Marmlon O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! 10034 Marmlon O And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow.... | |
| Christina Stead - 1965 - 580 páginas
...beautiful! Look at the girl with da spaghett'— mwsk, mwsk, mwsk! I love her. I'll marry her too. Mwsk! Oh, woman in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard to please: But when the time comes round for chow A ministering angel thou. Look at this one with the mayonnaise. Mwsk!... | |
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