| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst t" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made f When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 pages
...bring, Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — XXX. 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... | |
| Stephen T. Mitchell - 1827 - 246 pages
...flood of light and splendour. Truly did the poet speak when he observed •Oh ! 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." . It was the peculiar... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 392 pages
...acknowledged them to be true, arc the exquisite lines of our mighty minstrel. t Oh 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 biotr, A ministering angel thou! My recovery... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm graf von Bismark - 1827 - 538 pages
...mutable goddess (1). (C) Petty warfare. The strategical object of war is the defeat of the enemy*. (1) " Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade, By the light quivering aspen made." Such is fortune, without even possessing the redeeming quality which the poet allows to... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...the spring, To s hike my dying thirst!» — XXX. O, Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, aud hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspea made, — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 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... | |
| 1829 - 760 pages
...for tliis, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. ' O woman ! in our liours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; AVhen pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !' '"• Unwilling, and... | |
| John Angell James - 1830 - 236 pages
...for this, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " Oh 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 !" Unwilling, and, indeed,... | |
| 1830 - 550 pages
...admirable and frequently quoted lines of Walter Scott so truly applicable :— " ' Oh ! Woman, in onr hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering аяреп made : — When care and anguish wring the brow A MINISTERING ANGEL THOU!1 * BUCKINGHAM... | |
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