 | Clara Cameron (fict.name.) - 1851 - 882 pàgines
...like to lose sight of you — I could fancy I already feel the better for your return." CHAPTER X. " 0 woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou I " MARMION. WHEN Lady Eastham left the sick-room of her husband, she met the physician entering for... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1851 - 348 pàgines
...to quote the beautiful and very pertinent lines of Sir Walter Scott : — /' O, woman! in our hoon of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." THE LEES. IF human evidence is to be taken as a sufficient test of truth, as we seem to allow it in... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 pàgines
...and Moore, and come to Scott, who says, in a stanza truthful rather than complimentary : — " ' Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...quivering aspen made ; "When pain and anguish wring the hrow, A ministering angel thou.' " His poetic female characters are, for the most part, true to this... | |
 | Philarète Chasles - 1852 - 334 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Philarète Chasles - 1852 - 334 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pàgines
...was sad, the garden was a wild, And man, the hermit, sighed till woman smiled. Campbell. 690 WOMAN. O, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. Scott. Woman is the lesser man. Tennyson. When foes the hand of menace shook, And friends betrayed,... | |
 | 1853 - 820 pàgines
..."Excúseme, madam," said he; the last canto of "Marmion'' : — " I cannot help expressing my regrets " 0 woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Then turn to the Bard of Hope, and not done so already : — learn these lines by heart, if you have... | |
 | 1853 - 796 pàgines
...— " 1 cannot help expressing my regrets " O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and bard to please, And variable as the shade, By the light,...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Then turn to the Bard of Hope, and not done so already -.— . learn these Hues by heart, if you have... | |
 | Sir William Nott - 1854 - 542 pàgines
...the linen which they wore, to bind up the wounds of the sufferers who lay in numbers around them. " O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." The ration of water was but half a wine-glassful to each ; and this scene of misery lasted for weeks.... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1854 - 398 pàgines
...characteristics of her sex, so beautifully described by Sir Walter Scott, than Mary Stuart :— " Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" Such had she been to her first consort, the sickly, stammering, unattractive Francis, proving herself,... | |
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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... 
