 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 ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the...  Flowers of fiction - Página 1701837Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846
...Page, 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 hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pam and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1846
...subsided at once. Following the tender instincts of his heart, young Willoughby had remembered him of Woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; and, on finding that " grief and danger were wringing his brow," in the form of impending clerkhood,... | |
 | James Grant - 1847
...Waterloo the battle was yet raging with as much fury as ever. CHAPTER XIII. THE SISTER OF CHARITY. " 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,... | |
 | James M'Henry - 1848
...he was able to walk stoutly enough, was accomplished speedily and without accident. CHAPTER XIII. 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,... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1848
...subsided at once. Following the tender instincts of his heart, young Willoughby had remembered him of Woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; and, on finding that " grief and danger were wringing his brow," in the form of impending clerkhood,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848
...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 hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow,... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1848 - 282 páginas
...of the true future. CHAPTER VIII. MISS MATTJRIN'S VISIT, AND THE CONFUSION OF HENRY 'GOSP1TCH. " 0, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, * * * * When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " SIB WAITER SCOTT. WEARY... | |
 | M Joseph Denison - 1849
...many a dirge recall. LINES UPON SEEING THE MAKBLE GROUP OF P^ITUS AND ARRIA, AT A VILLA NEAR ROME.* "Oh! woman, in our hours of ease, " Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; " Let pain and anguish wring our brow, " A ministering angel thou !" Mannion. " When the banner of... | |
 | Georgiana Fullerton - 1849 - 318 páginas
...them all back, Maud ; we must walk now." " Any thing to get rid of me this morning, I suppose — ' O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please !' Well,. ' when pain and sorrow wring my brow,' Margaret, I hope you will be a ' ministering angel,'... | |
 | Ariel Ivers Cummings - 1849 - 188 páginas
...such a moment felt, in all its truth and life, the glowing language of the poet, when he sang, " 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,... | |
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