| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 pages
...groom, one cup to bring, Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — XXX. O, Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard...the light quivering aspen made, — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst t" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, 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 accents... | |
| 1825 - 386 pages
...destruction of her own existence ! " O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to pleas*, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When Pain and Anguish wring the brow, A ministering Angel thou !" i O, in the hour of death, may our pillowbe smoothed,... | |
| Stephen T. Mitchell - 1827 - 246 pages
...pours forth its most brilliant flood of light and splendour. Truly did the poet speak when he observed •Oh ! woman in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy...shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel, thou." . It was the peculiar spirit of proud acquiescence... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 392 pages
...of universal man has 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 the lady "... | |
| 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
...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...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... | |
| 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 indeed, unable... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1829 - 378 pages
...universal man has acknowledged them to be true — are the exquisite lines of our mighty minstrel : — Ok 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 tliou ! My recovery... | |
| |