...has many allusions to this tree; particularly in the wellknown lines, — " Oh, woman ! in our houn of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable as the shade Br the light quivering aspen made, \Vhfn pain or sicknesss rends the brow, A ministering angel thou."...

...or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst!" — XXX. O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And \ariable as the shade Bv the light quivering aspen made, — Wben pain and anguish wring the brow,...

...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 ; ' the form of impending clerkhood, fled to the bosom of a ministering angel, who had often smoothed...

...was his last : as he had never loved before, so he never loved again. Their courtship ended then. ' O woman, in our hours of ease, ' Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, ' When pain and anguish wring the brow, ' A ministering angel thou !' Thus saith the poet, and so far...

...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 ; ' the form of impending clerkhood, fled to the bosom of a rninisteringangel, who had often smoothed...

...PRINTED BY IAMUEL B1NTLBT, Bangor House, Shoe Lane. THE DUKE, A NOVEL. BY MRS. GREY. Oli, woman ! in onr hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,...When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angtl thon ! SCOTT. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1839....

...favorites ; they go down much >ctter than them old fashioned staves o' Watts. 'Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain und anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou.' • If I did'nt touch it off to the nines, it's...

...favorites; they go down muchbetter than them old-fashioned staves o' Watts. ' Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made : VVhcu pain and anguish wring the brow, A ioiuisttrim; ungelthon.' If I didn't touch it oil to the...

...unrelenting, remorseless foe. Never did man speak more truly of woman than Scott, when he sang, — " O 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 trow, Administering...

...found use for them! I consider my coat altogether comme il faut. But woman's tact and penetration! Oh, woman! " In our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please!" Fortune favor the wretch who has to pass the ordeal of your inquisitive and searching glance! I foresaw...