 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 1841 - 390 pages
...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 - Belgium - 1841 - 324 pages
...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... | |
 | Prideaux John Selby - Forests and forestry - 1842 - 572 pages
...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 - Adventure stories - 1842 - 530 pages
...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 —... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pages
...the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When paln and anruish wring the hrow A mimstering aiigel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When,...and fears; The plaintive voice alone she hears, Sees hut the dying man. She stooped her hy the runnel's side, But in ahhorrence hackward drew For, oozing... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Court-partial - 1844 - 680 pages
...and trembled. CHAPTER VIII. ROSTREVOR'S TALE CONTINUED. Oh woman ! in our hours of ease, Unoertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, Where pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! SCOTT. '' ALICE insisted that the... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 pages
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst ! " Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou I — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...tears for naught but other's ills, And then they flowed like mountain rills.' " Oh, woman ! in otir hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" The governor, who had already excited the indignation oi the people, by placing a guard upon the... | |
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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... 
