 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!  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - 123 ページWalter Scott 著 - 1866 - 559 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Samuel Ware Fisher - 1850 - 28 ページ
...furnishes a firm ground of confidence in respect to usefulness. A poet of the last generation writes Oh! woman in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...light quivering aspen made; "When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou." Admirable as is the compliment in the closing lines, yet... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1850 - 266 ページ
...know that the Earl in his confinement was ere long solaced by her society and tender care : — " Oh woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard...light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " The Government proceeded expeditiously against their unhappy... | |
 | 1851 - 68 ページ
...a firm ground of confidence in respect to usefulness. A poet of the last generation writes— " Oh! woman in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and hard...light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." . ed amidst the practical relations of society, and who... | |
 | Confessor - 1851 - 336 ページ
...destruction, when, had he but been ruled by me, he would now have been safe at Paris or the Hague." CHAPTEK X. O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! WALTER SCOTT. As, unlike his illustrious predecessors in... | |
 | Henry Drury - 1851 - 386 ページ
...тrXака Matavöpov тrap' aкVцovos, о ' * ' • ie j. paaaay r¡ кат iocvecpeis, Jïlarmton. O WOMAN, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! Scott. отrоí/ 0 а сvaерws ar¡cwv iueXos otкTpov... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 ページ
...and Moore, and come to Scott, who says, in a stanza truthful rather than complimentary : — " ' Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...light quivering aspen made ; "When pain and anguish wring the hrow, A ministering angel thou.' " His poetic female characters are, for the most part, true... | |
 | Clara Cameron (fict.name.) - 1851 - 882 ページ
...like to lose sight of you — I could fancy I already feel the better for your return." CHAPTER X. " 0 woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...light, quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou I " MARMION. WHEN Lady Eastham left the sick-room of her husband,... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1851 - 348 ページ
...to quote the beautiful and very pertinent lines of Sir Walter Scott : — /' O, woman! in our hoon of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." THE LEES. IF human evidence is to be taken as a sufficient... | |
 | Philarète Chasles - 1852 - 334 ページ
...favorites ; 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...light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou.' If I didn't touch it off to the nines it's a pity. I never... | |
 | 1916 - 892 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... | |
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