 O 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...  Exercises in Reading and Recitation - 143 ページ 編集 - 1828 - 251 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1841 - 390 ページ
...prolonged their lives at the risk of her own. Well might our great and good Scott say of women — 0 woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! From being less frequented by travellers than most other places in Italy, Ancona possesses no good... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1841 - 324 ページ
...those brave fellows who though in agony, silently but significantly expressed their gratitude. " Oh woman in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...please. And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspin made, When pain and anguish wring the brow A minist'ring angel thou." Mrs. Drummond had a wonderful... | |
 | Prideaux John Selby - 1842 - 572 ページ
...modern writers, among which none is more beautiful than the well-known lines in Marmion : — " Oh ! woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" The vignette represents one of the Aspens growing upon the Lady's Islet, in Loch Katrine. Our figure... | |
 | Michael Scott - 1842 - 530 ページ
...utterance, or the fear of disturbing the dying moments of her lover made her dumb. " Oh, Woman, in our houn of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable...When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angol thou ! " Hearing a bustle in the room, Adderfang now spoke, in a low and interrupted voice —... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 ページ
...they quite disappear and are lost. 2 1 Johnson (Boswell), i. 458. (Croker's ed.). CHAP. VI. WOMAtt. OH WOMAN ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...By the light, quivering aspen made: When pain and sickness cloud the brow, A ministering angel thou. 1 Oh SEX ! still sweet, or bitter *e-extreme, /K... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1843 - 358 ページ
...much better than them old-fashioned staves o' Watts. " Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, cny, and hard to please, And variable as the shade, By...aspen made : When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministeriu* angel thou." If I didn't touch it off to the nines it's a pity. I never heerd you preach... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 ページ
...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...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou I — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 ページ
...tears for naught but other's ills, And then they flowed like mountain rills.' " Oh, woman ! in otir hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" The governor, who had already excited the indignation oi the people, by placing a guard upon the... | |
 | Michael Scott - 1846 - 382 ページ
...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 —... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1846 - 402 ページ
...favourites ; they go down much better than them old-fashioned staves o' Watts. " Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable....anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." If I didn't touch it off to the nines it's a pity. I never heerd you preach so well, says one, since... | |
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