 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...  Exercises in Reading and Recitation - Pagina 143geredigeerd door - 1828 - 251 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Mary Matilda Howard - 1850 - 426 pagina’s
...By-the-by, I never very much admired another celebrated description of the sex, by Sir Walter Scott— Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...light, quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish lave the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " A good nurse implies many valuable qualities,'' said Mrs.... | |
 | Confessor - 1851 - 336 pagina’s
...destruction, when, had he but been ruled by me, he would now have been safe at Paris or the Hague." CHAPTEK X. O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! WALTER SCOTT. As, unlike his illustrious predecessors in suffering, Albert Lyndesay was not deemed... | |
 | Henry Drury - 1851 - 386 pagina’s
...тrXака Matavöpov тrap' aкVцovos, о ' * ' • ie j. paaaay r¡ кат iocvecpeis, Jïlarmton. O WOMAN, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! Scott. отrоí/ 0 а сvaерws ar¡cwv iueXos otкTpov /taXáic ao1 кaTa9pr¡vei. XtVcro/uai,... | |
 | Clara Cameron (fict.name.) - 1851 - 882 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
..."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... | |
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