| 1821 - 780 pàgines
...«ithout whom Paradise would have bloomed and blossomed in vain, and man have lived a gloomy being. "O Woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; When sorrow marks our languid broW, A ministering angel thou. Though the rules of our institution... | |
| 1820 - 558 pàgines
...real adversity, are " calm as a summer's sea, when not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface." " O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...And variable as the shade, By the light quivering aspin made ; Yet when pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" " Our children."... | |
| 1825
...O woman ! in our hours of case, Uncertain, coy, anil hard to please, And variable as the shade I!y the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Smith had been betrayed into the power of the Indians; he was arrayed before the sachems assembled... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 400 pàgines
...yet even to many of these, the following lines are not always inappropriate or inapplicable. • Oh Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...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... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...soul, to give vent to that bursting sorrow which threatened the 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... | |
| Stephen T. Mitchell - 1827 - 246 pàgines
...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... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 260 pàgines
...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 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 ! My recovery... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm graf von Bismark - 1827 - 538 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
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