 | James M'Henry - 1848 - 470 pages
...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...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! SCOTT. The excitement — the mixture of alarm and joy produced on Charles's arrival at the house of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 306 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1848 - 566 pages
...than them old-fashioned staves o' Watts. " Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light...aspen made : When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministerin' angel thou." If I didn't touch it off to the nines it's a pity. I never heerd you preach... | |
 | Ariel Ivers Cummings - Conduct of life - 1849 - 200 pages
...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...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" Have you not felt indeed that language is inadequate to picture the reality as it is, or to describe... | |
 | Christian life - 1851 - 68 pages
...A poet of the last generation writes— " Oh! woman in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." . ed amidst the practical relations of society, and who has formed herself to decision in action, can... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1850 - 266 pages
...solaced by her society and tender care : — " Oh woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " The Government proceeded expeditiously against their unhappy captives. An impeachment was agreed... | |
 | Samuel Ware Fisher - Women - 1850 - 28 pages
...usefulness. A poet of the last generation writes Oh! woman in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade, By the light...anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou." Admirable as is the compliment in the closing lines, yet you will not regard it as redeeming the severe... | |
 | Mary Matilda Howard - 1850 - 426 pages
...description of the sex, by Sir Walter Scott— 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 lave the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " A good nurse implies many valuable qualities,'' said Mrs.... | |
 | Confessor - 1851 - 336 pages
...been safe at Paris or the Hague." CHAPTEK X. O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade, By the light...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! WALTER SCOTT. As, unlike his illustrious predecessors in suffering, Albert Lyndesay was not deemed... | |
 | Bernard Burke - Anecdotes - 1851 - 348 pages
...pertinent lines of Sir Walter Scott : — /' O, woman! in our hoon of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light...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... | |
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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! 
