...thou liest howling" (Vi263- 5). The phrase is used again by Sir Walter Scott in Marm ion ( 1 808): "O Woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain, coy,...anguish wring the brow, / A ministering angel thou!" (canto 6, stanza 30). Menthol rubbed on the forehead was used to relieve a headache before aspirin...

...as when lighting up the couch of her invalid husband. Scott wrote beautifully and truthfully : " Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel tliou." CHAPTER VIII. EDUCATION AS DISTINGUISHED FROM LEARNING. Although not the same kind, there is...

...accursed tree which trembles without even a breath of wind." Sir Walter Scott wrote : " O ^woman I in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,...variable as the shade By the light quivering Aspen made." Gerarde, however, ungallantly compares the leaves of the Aspen to women's tongues, as they " seldome...

...angrily in the sense of rascals. Of blessed water from the spring, goo To slake my dying thirst ! ' XXX. O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade B y the light quivering aspen made ; 905 When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel...

...and reformer from Massachusetts who published Women's Rights (1867). DAB, 18:572-73. Or of Scott's: O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy and hard to please, And variable as is the shade By the light, quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering...

...days be her best. Am reading now "Marmion," a Tale by Sir Walter Scott. These lines are very beautiful O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" We went up to "Woodside," spent the evening with cousin Juliet. I received a letter from Howard in...

...women. Walter Scott had a better ideal of the fair sex, at times coquettish, yet not above serving: "O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! This, too, is an inadequate conception of the part that woman plays in the world as the mistress of...

...extreme, men have viewed woman as a veritable goddess — the word often used to describe her is 'angel': O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy and...to please, And variable as the shade By the light of quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering ange/thou! And at the...

...expressly to entertain us. And there were no ladies, which to me was a blessed dispensation. ' ' Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. " Certainly : but at sea, Woman,...