...to those brave fellows who though in agony, silently but significantly expressed their gratitude. " Oh woman in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspin made, When pain and anguish wring the brow A...

...and supported the dreary path which leads to the grave. The poet was mistaken when he sung — " O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please." That is a calumny upon their virtues ; but he does them justice when he adds: — • " When pain and...

...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" XXX. O, now Each proud oppressor's mortal foe." — " Enough, enough ; si And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow,...

...save the sweet and consolatory dictates of the purest pity and compassion for suffering humanity. " 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...

...or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst!" 25» 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,...

...by modern writers, among which none is more beautiful than the well-known lines in Marmion : — " 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,...

...fortunate—he could not lie in better hands, or better company. As the Wizard of the North says— " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please — As variable as the shade, By the li;.;ht, quivering aspen made— Wlien pain and anguish wring...

...subsided at once. Following the tender instincts of his heart, young Willoughby had remembered him of ' Woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; ' and, on finding that ' grief and danger were wringing his brow,' in VOL. x. 36 the form of impending...

...subsided at once. Following the tender instincts of his heart, young Willoughby had remembered him of ' Woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; ' and, on finding that ' grief and danger were wringing his brow,' in VOL. x. 36 the form of impending...

...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,...