 Is there none, of all my halls have nurst, page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring of blessed water from the spring, to slake my dying thirst ? " 0 woman ! in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade by the light,...  Grantley Manor - Page 180by Lady Georgiana Fullerton - 1847 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 pages
...or groom, one cup to hring Of hlessed \vater, from the spring, To slako my dying thirst !" — XXXI. 0, 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... | |
 | Michael Scott - 1836 - 462 pages
...either 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pages
...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... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all heaven's harmonies. MILTON. MAEMION TO CLARE. 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... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 1841 - 390 pages
...prolonged their lives at the risk of her own. Well might our great and good Scott say of women — 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !' earest friend, My dear, dear friend, and m thy voice I catc please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the... | |
 | Georgiana Fullerton - Religious fiction - 1847 - 326 pages
...Put them all back, Maud ; we must walk now." " Anything to get rid of me this morning, I suppose— 1 0 woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...library." "No, "said Margaret, impetuously; "give it me, Maud— give it me, I entreat you !" Her gesture was so imperious, and her voice so imploring, that... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1848 - 320 pages
...not of the true future. CHAPTER VIII. MISS MATTJRIN'S VISIT, AND THE CONFUSION OF HENRY 'GOSP1TCH. " 0, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, * * * * When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " SIB WAITER SCOTT.... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring, Of blessed waler from thé spring, To slake my dying thirst'. ' — 0, Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,And variable as thé shade By thé light quivering aspen made, — "Whe pain and anguish wring... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1887 - 678 pages
...Scott shows, in the death of Marmion, how the mind turns to the use of the natural generic appellation: 0 woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to pleat e, * * * # * » When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. ALFRED GATTT,... | |
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