| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 páginas
...compassion for suffering humanity. " O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; And variable as the shade, By the light quivering...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Nothing could exceed the tender and unwearied care, with which she nursed him night and day, assisted... | |
| 1835 - 700 páginas
...lines of Sir Walter Scott — ' O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! ' Or the more passionate breathings of poor Zuleika's tenderness, in the verses of Lord Byron : '... | |
| 1808 - 416 páginas
...thirst, on which the poet exclaims: * O, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — " P. 362. And Clara comes to his relief. He learns from her the fate of Constance — his anguish... | |
| Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 páginas
...dying thirst !" — • XXXI. O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, -When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet... | |
| 1808 - 546 páginas
...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...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When with the baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet... | |
| 1808 - 596 páginas
...To slake my dying thirst !"— {5, 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 die brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's... | |
| 1809 - 518 páginas
...that beautiful passage in Marmion. O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. Having discharged my djity at the hospital, and taken a list of the corps and numbers of the wounded,... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 páginas
...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...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents-said, When, with the baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet... | |
| Adam Neale - 1809 - 514 páginas
...that beautiful passage in Marmion. O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel then. ceeded to visit a house further to the left, which was occupied by the French soldiery. In general... | |
| 1809 - 914 páginas
...To »lake 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 brou , A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the baron's... | |
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