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
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1844 - 384 Seiten
...on us. Yes, Scott, that profound reader of the human heart, was right when he said of them — U O! woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and sickness wring lue brow A ministering angel thou." The feelings of Strathern became softened... | |
| Michael Scott - 1846 - 382 Seiten
...deep for Mtterance, or the fear of disturbing the dying moments of her lover made her d ' t ' r,b. " O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering anget thou!" Hearing a bustle in the room, Adderfang now spoke, in a low and interrupted voice —... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 282 Seiten
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst ! " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pam and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said,... | |
| George Barrell Emerson - 1846 - 656 Seiten
...leaves -when zephyr fans the grove ; " and, best of all, Walter Scott, in his lines, — " Oh, worhan ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, Wheu pain or sickness rends the brow, A ministering angel thou." The foliage appears lighter than that... | |
| Confessions - 1846 - 418 Seiten
...surgeon ! Unclasp his habergeon !" UNPUBLISHED POEM. " Oh, woman, in our hoars of ease, Inconstant, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade,...quivering aspen made. When pain and anguish wring our brow, A ministering angel thou I" SCOTT'S MARMION. " Oh ! who's had the luck to see Donnybrook... | |
| Confessions - 1846 - 418 Seiten
...surgeon! Unclasp his habergeon!" UNPUBLISHED POEM. " Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Inconstant, coy, aad hard to please, And variable as the shade, By the...quivering aspen made. When pain and anguish wring our brow, A ministering angel thou !" SCOTT'S MARMION. " Oh ! who's had the luck to see Donnybrook... | |
| George Barrell Emerson - 1846 - 614 Seiten
...poplar leaves when zephyr fans the grove ; " and, best of all, Walter Scott, in his lines, — "Oh, woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By ihe light quivering aspen made, When pain or sickness rends the brow, A ministering angel thou." The... | |
| Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1846 - 838 Seiten
...subsided at once. Following the tender instincts of his heart, young Willoughby had remembered him of Woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; and, on finding that " grief and danger were wringing his brow," in the form of impending clerkhood, fled... | |
| Maria Jane McIntosh - 1843 - 234 Seiten
...promptitude which you did, and which had quite as much to do with saving my life as yo\H CHAPTER XII. " Oh woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, When pain and sickness wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." — SCOTT. THE rumours respecting... | |
| 1847 - 428 Seiten
...Roderick Dhu ? Who is James Fitz James ? 6. In which of Scott's poems do the following lines appear ? " O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy and hard...the shade By the light quivering Aspen made, When pam and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou" ! 7. Repeat the subject or fable of (1) The... | |
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