 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 accents said, When, with the...  Meister Karl's Sketch-book - Page 109by Charles Godfrey Leland - 1855 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Fiction - 1844 - 370 pages
...on us. Yes, Scott, that profound reader of the human heart, was right when he said of them — "O! woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and sickness wring the brow A ministering angel thou." The feelings of Strathern became softened towards... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1844 - 384 pages
...on us. Yes, Scott, that profound reader of the human heart, was right when he said of them — U O! woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and sickness wring lue brow A ministering angel thou." The feelings of Strathern became softened towards... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !' earest friend, My dear, dear friend, and m thy voice I catcb The la And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !' O, | From the Irtish and Volga to the Persian Golf, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...squire, or groom, one 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,... | |
 | Maria Jane McIntosh - Children's stories - 1843 - 234 pages
...promptitude which you did, and which had quite as much to do with saving my life as yo\H CHAPTER XII. " Oh woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, When pain and sickness wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." — SCOTT. THE rumours respecting the early recall... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Tracts - 1846 - 282 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 hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pam and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | George Barrell Emerson - Plants - 1846 - 614 pages
...poplar leaves when zephyr fans the grove ; " and, best of all, Walter Scott, in his lines, — " 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 or sickness rends the brow,... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1846 - 838 pages
...subsided at once. Following the tender instincts of his heart, young Willoughby had remembered him of Woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; and, on finding that " grief and danger were wringing his brow," in the form of impending clerkhood,... | |
 | 1878 - 496 pages
...soothe when hope itself be dead, And cheer with angel smile the sufferer's head." " 0 woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, When...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Community at East Griustead consisted of forty-one Sisters, seventyeight girls in S. Agnes' School,... | |
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