| 1841 - 640 sider
...save the sweet and consolatory dictates of the purest pity and compassion for suffering humanity. " O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Nothing could exceed the tender and unwearied care, with which she nursed him night and day, assisted... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1841 - 390 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 sider
...pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmur'd, — " Is there none, Of all my halls have nurst, threats.'— 'No?' said she ; 'and ye did leave that sword, Queen Ouencver !" XXX. O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade... | |
| Walter Scott - 1845 - 380 sider
...pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmur'd, — " Is there none, Of all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed...water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst!" 25» XXX. O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the... | |
| Prideaux John Selby - 1842 - 572 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 sider
...pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmured — ' Is there none, Of all my halls have nurst, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb !' 0, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By... | |
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