 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!  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - 123 ページWalter Scott 著 - 1866 - 559 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1916 - 928 ページ
...him. There is hardly a man who would not to-day echo Sir Walter Scott's familiar lines, — O Woman 1 in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. It is not woman's fault. The poetry of the world is filled with the words ' to win' and 'to woo'; one... | |
 | 1833 - 212 ページ
...savage mood, Endure and sbrink not, we of nobler clay May temper it to bear,— it is but for a day. O, woman! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and...light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou! SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental... | |
 | 1891 - 760 ページ
...from our first great poet, Shakespeare's — "Frailty, thy name is woman ! " Or with Scott's — О woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. (Afaruiion, c. vi., s. 30. MAC THE LAMP ACRE.1 ["BITS ABOUT EDINBURGH"— No. 3.] THE ancient collegiate... | |
 | 1867 - 420 ページ
...of "Female Suffrage" cut short with an "&c.," when ho had taken what Beemed to answer his purpose : "O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...light quivering Aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering Angel thou .'" "The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! The Man,... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - 1879 - 278 ページ
...smiled. But the trouble about that is it is too old. (Laughter.) • Then some one else has said : "Oh! woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish cloud the brow A ministering angel thou." But that is old, and that is hackneyed. (Laughter.) Some... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1986 - 626 ページ
...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,...light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! as real diamonds. If they were artists, it was from the common... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 ページ
...(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,...light quivering aspen made; / When pain and anguish wring the brow, / A ministering angel thou!" (canto 6, stanza 30). 13.328 (355:13-14). the menthol... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1995 - 980 ページ
...VI, 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...light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! See The Poetical Works Of Sir Walter Scott. Ed. J. Logic... | |
 | James A. Connolly - 1987 - 412 ページ
...a 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...light quivering aspen made,— When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel them I" shell that came screaming along, but as we neared the front... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 ページ
...last. 10033 Marmlon O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! 10034 Marmlon wring the brow. A ministering angel thou! 10035 Redgauntlet The ae half of the warld thinks the tither... | |
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