| English poetry - 1840 - 378 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...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... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 1840 - 388 pages
...prolonged their lives at the risk of her own. Well might our great and good Scott say of women — O woman ! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! From being less frequented by travellers... | |
| George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 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...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, 8 A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 1840 - 336 pages
...their lives at the risk of her own. VOL. nr. c Well might our great and good Scott say of women — O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! From being less frequented by travellers... | |
| Isaac Butt - 1840 - 1124 pages
...which attend upon the duties of the dead, from the hour of dissolution. CHAPTER VI. O woman ! ever in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! Walter Scott. IT is not my intention... | |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Canadian wit and humor - 1840 - 246 pages
...favourites ; they go down much better than them old-fashioned staves o* Watts, '. Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quirenng aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel them." If I didn't... | |
| Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline) - 1840 - 206 pages
...I" i THE DUKE. A NOVEL. BY MRS. GREY. Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard 10 please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! Scorr. k IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. PHILADELPHIA... | |
| Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all heaven's harmonies. MILTON. MAEMION TO CLARE. 0 WOMAN, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! DULCIS ECHO. NYMPHA, quam leni refluentis... | |
| 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...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! From being less frequented by travellers... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" XXX. O, i3 rm3˫v U v M ( ,,S 7/*Г ⬓v IJB| a/@( WQy <H U z Uy m W b x \ I L. 8F ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents... | |
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