...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 angel thou. SCOTT. ..... .:••.• i '•' MARY, who had hitherto comported her-self with the greatest firmness, now,...

...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 angel thou ! Scott. girdle of love bursts from under the bosom ; while love is like a tree, yielding in all seasons either...

...Such is fortune, without even possessing the redeeming quality which the poet allows to the lady " When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou.'' Scott. The Cavalier Kniphausen said, that an ounce of good fortune was better than a pound of wit. T. * Biilow...

...visit thou, in their distress, THE WIDOW and THE FATHERLESS. A TALE WITHOUT A NAME. " O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " SCOTT'S Marmiont canto vi. PART I. HE had no friend on earth but thee ; No hope in heaven above...

...expected stroke of death fallen upon him. In this unfortunate dilemma, a woman— " Oh ! woman in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A minist'ring angel then art thou." An actress of the company felt compassion for the desolate condition,...

...good constitution and the gentle assiduities of an affectionate wife — " Oh, woman ! in our hotirs of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ! When...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel, then art thou !" — restored him to the stage. • Soon after this he was induced, by promises of...

...the human creation above the brute, is most plainly developed in woman. " Who, in our hours of case, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; When pain and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Finding water difficult to obtain, we up anchor and stood along the Spanish main in search of a bay...

...to interpret it as a compliment or a satire, concedes this much to the fair sex. " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, When pain and sickness rend the brow, A ministering angel thou ! La Sceur Therese, continued some time with the invalid....

...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,...anguish wring the brow, ' A ministering angel thou !' Thus saith the poet, and so far as the observation and experience of the writer goeth, he confirmeth...

...ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to pleas* ; And iariable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! SCOTT. WE must now give an eye to the affairs of another of our fair friends, and seek the retirement of Ellen...