...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...

...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...

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

...often stopt, by fond regret inclin'd, To "cast one longing lingering look behind." 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...

...right, then thought it wrong j 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 hard to please j And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; My guardian angel stand confest, For...

...Flodden, the description of the battle, the death of Marmion, and llic relenting tenderness of Clare. O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! From the opinion of those who discover so much more merit in The Lady of the Luke, than in the two...

...availed himself of this circumstance, in a passage which speaks to all hearts its truth and beauty :— O woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...By the light, quivering, aspen made, When pain and sickness cloud the brow, A ministering angel them. WALTER SCOTT. Among the various species of exotic...

...the conversation then took a different turn. CHAP. XXI. Oh •woman, in our hours of ease, Uneertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade,...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel tuuu. BCOTT. SIR CHARLES gradually recovered from the ef. fects of his bruises, and his arm was in...

...either too deep for utterance, or the fear of disturhing the dying moments of her lover made her dumb. " O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable u the »hade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering...