 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...consolatory dictates of the purest pity and compassion for suffering humanity. " 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." Nothing could exceed... | |
 | 1808 - 704 pages
...!" The ensuing stauza ia eminently 1>«tiful :— " O woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, ooy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. W lirii pain and anguish wring the brew A ministering angel thou !— . Scarce were the... | |
 | 1835 - 700 pages
...the beautifully delicate, but still kindred lines of Sir Walter Scott — ' 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 ! ' Or the more passionate... | |
 | 1808 - 416 pages
...remains — he cries for water to slake his thirst, on which the poet exclaims: * 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 ! — " P. 362. And Clara... | |
 | 1808 - 596 pages
...to bring Pf blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !"— {5, 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 die brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous... | |
 | 1808 - 546 pages
...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 light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 pages
...Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — • XXXI. 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 ! — Scarce were the piteous... | |
 | 1808 - 742 pages
...to bring Of blessed water from the spring. To »Ukc my d\ ir.g. thirst t • _0, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade Bv the light quivering aspen imde; When pain and anguiih wring ihe hrow, A ministering angel, thou!... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 pages
...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 light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous... | |
 | 1809 - 518 pages
...that it brought forcibly to my recollection that beautiful passage in Marmion. 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. Having discharged my djity... | |
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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... 
