O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; there ?" — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou... The Monthly magazine - Seite 103von Monthly literary register - 1812Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 408 Seiten
...and yet even to many of these, the following lines are not always inappropriate or inapplicable. Oh Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain ami anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! Scott. girdle of love bursts from under the... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 Seiten
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst t" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made f When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents... | |
| George Wilkins - 1825 - 360 Seiten
...at his feet to cherish and support. Beautiful is the picture drawn by the bard of Caledonia: — " O woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; But when affliction clouds the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " Accompanied by Mrs. Burroughdale,... | |
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1812 - 372 Seiten
...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 hard to please 5 And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made j My guardian angel stand confest, ,... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 392 Seiten
...universal man has acknowledged them to be true, arc the exquisite lines of our mighty minstrel. t 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 biotr, A ministering angel thou! My recovery... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 260 Seiten
...universal man has acknowledged them to be true, are the exquisite lines of our mighty minstrel. 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 angel thou ! My recovery... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm graf von Bismark - 1827 - 538 Seiten
...mutable goddess (1). (C) Petty warfare. The strategical object of war is the defeat of the enemy*. (1) " Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade, By the light quivering aspen made." Such is fortune, without even possessing the redeeming quality which the poet allows to the lady "... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 Seiten
...the spring, To s hike my dying thirst!» — XXX. O, Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, aud hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspea made, — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the... | |
| James Trecothick Austin - 1829 - 32 Seiten
...could not be prevented, and to assuage the anguish of wounds, for which kindness is sometimes a cure. In our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to...aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A min'string angel thou. We are too often ungenerous to our own fame. The story of the British matron... | |
| John Angell James - 1830 - 236 Seiten
...and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. 6. MUTUAL SYMPATHY is required. " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen made, A ministering angel thou!" When pain and anguish wring the brow, Unwilling, and, indeed, unable to... | |
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