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Exercises in Reading and Recitation - Page 143
edited by - 1828 - 251 pages
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Marmion, by sir W. Scott. With all his intrs., and the editor's notes ...

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 418 pages
...squire, 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...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel tinm ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh...
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Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected ..., Volume 5

Agnes Strickland - 1855 - 346 pages
...described by Sir Walter Scott, than Mary Stuart: 1 Nelson's Deposition—Anderson's Collections. " Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" Such had she been to her first consort, the sickly, stammering, unattractive Francis, proving herself,...
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Modern Eloquence: A Library of the World's Best Spoken Thought, Volume 14

Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 494 pages
...of heaven, — Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love. — OTWAY. O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! — SIR WALTEH SCOTT. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 117

1916 - 892 pages
...eludes him. There is hardly a man who would not to-day echo Sir Walter Scott's familiar lines, — O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...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...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 117

1916 - 928 pages
...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...
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The Man, Volume 1, Issue 1

1833 - 212 pages
...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...and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou! SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental day, Free, gen'rous, and refin'd, Descend...
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Scottish Notes and Queries, Volumes 4-6

1891 - 760 pages
...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...
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The Dartmouth, Volume 1

1867 - 420 pages
...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...and anguish wring the brow A ministering Angel thou .'" "The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! The Man, the Hermit, sigh'd — till Woman smiled."...
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Proceedings ..., Volume 2

New York State Bar Association - 1879 - 278 pages
...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...
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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Volume 29

Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 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...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! as real diamonds. If they were artists, it was from the common civilisation of both sexes that they...
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