...hours of ease, Fantastic, coy, and bard to please, And variable as the shade, By the light, quiv'ring aspen made : When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Scotl. Many obtain for themselves a fictitious excellence by dying in youth. The glowing predictions...

...cheered and supported the dreary path which leads to the grave. The poet was mistaken when he sung — " O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please." That is a calumny upon their virtues ; but he does them justice when he adds: — • " When pain and...

...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,...

...mistress are both named Constance. Moreover, Scott's interruption of his narrative in VI.xxx, beginning "O Woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain, coy, and hard to please," recalls the Man of Law's frequent interruptions, especially his apostrophes to the two wicked mothers-in-law;...

...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,...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...

...(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,...anguish wring the brow, / A ministering angel thou!" (canto 6, stanza 30). 13.328 (355:13-14). the menthol cone - The cooling and aromatic effect of menthol...

...Captain 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....

...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...

...VI, 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...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! See The Poetical Works Of Sir Walter Scott. Ed. J. Logic Robertson. London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, New...

...a 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...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel them I" shell that came screaming along, but as we neared the front we could see that the musketry...