...!" The ensuing stauza ia eminently 1>«tiful :— " O woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, ooy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. W lirii pain and anguish wring the brew A ministering angel thou !— . Scarce were the piteous accent!...

...object beloved. — These beautiful lines from Marmion might have furnished him with the hint: — " Oh woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, WTienpain and sickness wring the brow A ministering angel thou!" Or these, from Dodsley's fragment,...

...ohject heloved. — These heautiful lines from Marmion might have furnished him with the hint: — " Oh woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variahle as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, H' In n jut i ii and richness wring the hrow...

...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst ! "— O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade fiy the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministerinsr amgel thou...

...or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring. To »Ukc my d\ ir.g. thirst t • _0, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade Bv the light quivering aspen imde; When pain and anguiih wring ihe hrow, A ministering angel, thou!...

...Page, squire, or groom, one cup Of blessed water from the spring, To »lake my dying thirst!" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brou , A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the baron's...

...Without sorrow, we could never know half the value of heaven's last best gift to man : — . " Oh, woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; 136 And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the...

...SKETCHES OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONS. ilOClAPHICAL SKETCH OF MADAME DE STAHL. " O ! woman ! in our hour* of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade. By the light, quivering a«pen made : When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." SCOTT'S MAKMION. AjADAME...

...by fond regret inclin'd, To "cast one longing lingering look behind." MS 181 STANZAS ON WOMAN. " O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made." WAITER SCOTT, HAST thou not mark'd the smiling deep AH tranquil and serene ; When every zephyr seem'd...

...then thought it wrong; • But Redesdale calm'd the tumult wild, And Liverpool look'd up and smil'd. O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; My guardian angel stand confest, For pain and anguish wring my breast !— The rankling secret festers...