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
| 1816 - 420 Seiten
...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 hard...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... | |
| Elizabeth Thomas - 1816 - 312 Seiten
...turn. CHAP. XXI. Oh woman, in our hours of ease, . Uneertain, coy, and hard to please, And variahle as the shade, By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the hrow, A ministering ugcl thou. SCOTT. SIR CHARLES gradually recovered from the ef. fects of his bruises,... | |
| 1824 - 462 Seiten
...WALDEGRAVE. ANSWER TO THE "BACHELOR'S FARE," FPAfcA appeared in the KaleUolcopc of February 11, 1823. Oh, woman! In our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...shade By the light quivering aspen made: When pain and sickness wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. Scott. Though endless variety, little satiety. Great... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 Seiten
...object beloved. These beautiful lines from Martnion might have furnished him \tTth the hint — » " Oh Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When fain and tic/aiets irring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" Or these from Dodsley's fragment, entitled... | |
| Mrs. Ross - 1818 - 526 Seiten
...not worth having; at least, I never should regret they were withheld from any of my friends." "Oh, woman '. in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as is the shade By the light quivering aspen made — " " How great a revolution of sentiment does a fleeting... | |
| Walter Scott - 1818 - 372 Seiten
...sight away, Till pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmured, — "Is-there none, XXXI. O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variahle as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the hrow, A ministering... | |
| Thomas Brown (the elder, pseud.) - 1818 - 714 Seiten
...presented to him on his road through life with his new partner, still will he have to »ay — Oh ! woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And varying as the uncertain shade By the light trembling aspen made, When care and sorrow rend our brow,... | |
| 1820 - 568 Seiten
...real adversity, are " calm as a summer's sea, when not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface." « O woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...And variable as the shade, By the light quivering aspin made; Yet when pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" " Our children."—Note... | |
| 1820 - 344 Seiten
...dare to give away, Yet none can wish to keep. OW WOMAN. Oh, woman, in our hours of ease' U»certain, coy, and hard to please' And variable "as the shade,...light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish rung the bro* A ministering angel thou JEWS. Amazing race ! deprived of lands laws, A general language... | |
| 1821 - 780 Seiten
...«ithout whom Paradise would have bloomed and blossomed in vain, and man have lived a gloomy being. "O Woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; When sorrow marks our languid broW, A ministering angel thou. Though the rules of our institution... | |
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