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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... "
The Belfast Monthly Magazine - Page 289
1811
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

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...
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The poetical works of sir Walter Scott, Volume 3

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...
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The Spirit of the Old Dominion

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...
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The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, Volume 3

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...
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Lectures on the tactics of cavalry: and Elements of manœuvre for a cavalry ...

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...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Complete in One Volume

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...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

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...
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The Congregational magazine [formerly The London Christian ..., Volume 5

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...
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The Family Monitor, Or, A Help to Domestic Happiness

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,...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 16

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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