| 1825 - 386 pągines
...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...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... | |
| Stephen T. Mitchell - 1827 - 246 pągines
...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 and hard...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel, thou." . It was the peculiar spirit of proud acquiescence in the general feeling of hate to the existing form... | |
| John Angell James - 1830 - 236 pągines
...required. Sickness may call for this, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" Unwilling, and, indeed, unable to subscribe to the former part of this description, I do most readily... | |
| Adrian Russell Terry - 1834 - 306 pągines
...to the support and protection of whom, she devoted herself and the whole of her moderate fortune. "' O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain coy and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." The Roman Catholic religion is of course the religion of Colombia, but foreigners are not molested... | |
| 1834 - 896 pągines
...dying moments of her lover made her dumb. " O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and bard to please, And variable as the shade By the light...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " Hearing a bustle in the room, Adderfang now spoke, in a low and interrupted voice — it was in... | |
| William Caveler - 1835 - 194 pągines
...Marmion might be well applied to this cruel desertion of the monarch on his death bed : " Is there none Of all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or groom,...blessed water from the spring To slake my dying thirst ?" The canopy (of which the accompanying plate shews one compartment) is of oak, it is still in excellent... | |
| 1836 - 436 pągines
...required. Sickness may call for this, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " O woman ! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and...When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering augel them l" Unwilling, and, indeed,,nnable to subscribe to the former part of this description, I... | |
| 1836 - 432 pągines
...for this, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " O woman ! in onr houn of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" Unwilling, and. indeed, unable to subscribe to the former part of this description, I do most readily... | |
| Michael Scott - 1837 - 330 pągines
...too deep for utterance, or the fear of disturbing the dying moments of her lover made her d umb. " О woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, ^V ministering angel thou !" Hearing a bustle in the room, Adderfang now spoke, in a low and interrupted... | |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1838 - 370 pągines
...favorites; 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...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." If I didn't touch it off to the nines it's a pity. I never heerd you preach so well, says one, since... | |
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