| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 400 pages
...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 ! Scott. girdle of love bursts from under the bosom ; while love is like a tree, yielding in all seasons... | |
| 1825 - 386 pages
...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, our eyes closed, by the angelic hand of woman... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 260 pages
...of universal man has acknowledged them to be true, are the exquisite lines of our mighty minstrel. Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! My recovery was slow, for the stamina of my constitution, originally firm, had at length given way,... | |
| 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...light-quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the biotr, A ministering angel thou! My recovery was slow, for the stamina. of my constitution, originally... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...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 piteous accents said, When, with the b.irous casque, the maid To the nigti streamlet... | |
| 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 to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; '' When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! —... | |
| 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...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel tliou ! My recovery was slow, for the stamina of my constitution, originally firm, had at length given... | |
| 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 !' '"•... | |
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