 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...  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - 92 ページWalter Scott 著 - 1831 - 490 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Richard Deakin - 1857 - 716 ページ
...Aspen tree a favourite subject of poets. Sir W. Scott allndes to it in the following lines : — " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard...shade By the light quivering Aspen made, When pain or sickness rends the brow, A ministering angel thou." " Old Gerard" quaintly compared the leaves of... | |
 | 1916 - 986 ページ
...eludes him. There is hardly a man who would not to-day echo Sir Walter Scott's familiar lines, — O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. It is not woman's fault. The poetry of the world is filled with the words ' to win' and 'to woo'; one... | |
 | David Hunter Strother - 1857 - 312 ページ
...acquiescent had they become since the snowstorm. Crayon's word was law, and he felt like a potentate. " O woman ! in our hours of ease, • Uncertain, coy,...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made." And the poet might have added, without spoiling the verse, " Striving by every art to rule, Willful... | |
 | 1857 - 984 ページ
...her undaunted devotion to humanity in the pestilent hospitals and gory battle fields of the Crimea. " O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen made. 'VVhen pain and anguish wring the brow, A minintering angeMhou." The example furnished by the benevolent... | |
 | Homerus - 1857 - 242 ページ
...Somewhat similar is the lament of the dying Marmion (see Scott), " Is there none, Of all my halls ham nurst, Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of...water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst." — Canto TÍ. Kai p.tv inré\vaf /tifos, к.т.Л. : a zeugma = " and of those he unnerved (in death)... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 364 ページ
...pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmured, — ' Is there none, Of all my halls have nursed, Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst ! ' — 30 0, woman ! in our hours of ease, TJncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 ページ
...pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmured — " Is there none, Of all my halls have nursed, Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed...water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst!" O, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 ページ
...all my halls have nurst, Page, sipjire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, .V ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous aecents said, When, with the Baron's casque,... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 ページ
...her from the sight away, Till pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmur 'd, — " Is there none Of all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or...blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" 0, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 ページ
...victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice? HENCE, varlets! FLY! Leave Marmion here alone, — to die." Of all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or groom,...water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst?" Scarce were the piteous accents said. When, with the baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet... | |
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