 | Iowa State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1901 - 938 pages
...cheerful laughter. It was Walter Scott who sang : — "Oh Woman! In our hour of ease. Inconstant, ooy and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aap.? n made; When pain and anguish wriug the brow, A ministering angel Hum!" The ladies: Mother, sister,... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...(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...as the shade / By the light quivering aspen made; / When pain and anguish wring the brow, / A ministering angel thou!" (canto 6, stanza 30). 13.328 (355:13-14).... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Literary Collections - 1986 - 626 pages
...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...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! as real diamonds. If they were artists,... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 288 pages
...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, pp. 109-13.... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1993 - 724 pages
...assistance from Mile Read, 15 vols. (1926-27), VII, 191, 196. 37. Sir Walter Scott once described woman as "Uncertain, coy, and hard to please / And variable...as the shade / By the light quivering aspen made." Mannion, canto VI, stanza 30. 38. Barbara Taylor, Eve and the New Jerusalem : Socialism and Feminism... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Fiction - 1995 - 980 pages
...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...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! See The Poetical Works Of Sir Walter... | |
 | James A. Connolly - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 412 pages
...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...as the shade By the light quivering aspen made,— When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel them I" shell that came screaming along,... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Poetry - 1996 - 476 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 252 pages
...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...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!" November 1, 1901 The Mill on the Floss,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...last. 10033 Marmlon O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! 10034 Marmlon O When pain and anguish wring the brow. A ministering angel thou! 10035 Redgauntlet The ae half of the... | |
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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... 
