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... Mark Twain's Library of Humor - Página 3571888 - 707 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1836 - 436 páginas
...required. Sickness may call for this, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " 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,... | |
| Michael Scott - 1836 - 462 páginas
...too deep for utterance, or the fear of disturbing the dying moments of her lover made her dumb. " 0, Woman! in our hours of ease, . . Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the tight quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
| M F. Dickson - 1837 - 748 páginas
...to know whether to interpret it as a compliment or a satire, concedes this much to the fair sex. " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, When pain and sickness rend the brow, A ministering angel thou ! La Sceur Therese, continued some time with the invalid.... | |
| 1837 - 418 páginas
...they turned almost broken-hearted away from what they once valued so highly ? II. — THE REUNION. " Oh woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; But when affliction wrings the brow, A ministering angel thou." IT was autumn : the foliage had put... | |
| Truth - 1837 - 566 páginas
...sickness bend him down, and she flie like a guardian angel to his succour, and smiles forgiveness. ' O woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; , i And variable as the shade, r By the light quivering aspen made, When care and anguish rock the... | |
| Michael Scott - 1837 - 330 páginas
...too deep for utterance, or the fear of disturbing the dying moments of her lover made her d umb. " О 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 Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 784 páginas
...Тпомпох. Sir W. Scott has many allusions to this tree ; particularly in the wellknown lines, — " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen mad«, when pain or sicknests rends the brow,... | |
| David Willard - 1838 - 210 páginas
...was his last : as he had never loved before, so he never loved again. Their courtship ended then. ' O woman, in our hours of ease, ' Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, ' AVhen pain and anguish wring the brow, ' A ministering angel thou !' Thus saith the poet, and so... | |
| Mortimer Delmar (fict.name.) - 1838 - 1118 páginas
...The happy couple immediately set off for the Baronet's estate, to spend the honey moon. CHAPTER X. Oh woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to pleas* ; And iariable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the... | |
| 456 páginas
...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,... | |
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