...under the green-wood tree, and with the terror of the constable before his eyes. On the high-road be met with nothing but broad-wheeled waggons, in the...hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ;" the form of impending clerkhood, fled to the bosom of a ministeringangel, who had often smoothed...

...modern writers, among which none is more beautiful than the well-known lines in Marmion : — " Oh ! 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...

...fortunate—he could not lie in better hands, or better company. As the Wizard of the North says— " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please — As variable as the shade, By the li;.;ht, quivering aspen made— Wlien pain and anguish wring...

...or groom, one cup to hring Of Messed water, from the spriog, To slake my dying thirst P — XXX. 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 paln and anruish wring the hrow A mimstering...

...they quite disappear and are lost. 2 1 Johnson (Boswell), i. 458. (Croker's ed.). CHAP. VI. WOMAtt. OH 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 sickness cloud the brow, A...

...of us. So we speak with a disguise. Sir Walter Scott forgot himself when he spoke of them: — " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ;" as if they were stormy peterals, whose appearance indicated shipwreck and troubled waters on the...

...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !' 0, 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...

...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 By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering...

...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !' O, | From the Irtish and Volga to the Persian Golf, variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering...

...on us. Yes, Scott, that profound reader of the human heart, was right when he said of them — U O! woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and sickness wring lue brow A ministering angel thou." The feelings of Strathern became softened...