| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 596 pages
...bring " Of blessed water from the spring, " To slake my dying thirst f— XXX. O, "Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable...wrongs, and fears; The plaintive voice alone she hears, She stoop'd her by the runnel's side, But in abhorrence backward drew; For, oozing from the mountain's... | |
| Heron - 1821 - 944 pages
...off, and lodged its contents in the body of the carl K 6 CHAPCHAPTER XIV. Oli, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel tliou. Munition. WITH indescribable agony, with breathless overwhelming agitation, lord Frederic Beauehief... | |
| Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...bring, Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !"— • XXX. O, Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...The plaintive voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying man. She stoop'd her by the runnel's side, But in abhorrence backward drew ; For, oozing from... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 pages
...bring, Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — XXX. O, Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...wrongs, and fears ; The plaintive voice alone she hears, She stoop'd her by the runnel's side, But in abhorrence backward drew ; For, oozing from the mountain's... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 400 pages
...these, the following lines are not always inappropriate or inapplicable. • Oh Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; 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 pages
...to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst t" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, 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 pages
...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...and Anguish wring the brow, A ministering Angel thou !" i O, in the hour of death, may our pillowbe smoothed, our eyes closed, by the angelic hand of woman... | |
| Stephen T. Mitchell - 1827 - 246 pages
...flood of light and splendour. Truly did the poet speak when he observed •Oh ! woman in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard to please ; And variable...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...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...Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the b.irous casque, the maid To the nigti streamlet ran : Forgot were hatred, wrongs, and fears. The plaintive... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...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...The plaintive voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying man. She stooped her by the runnel's side, She filled the helm, and back she hied,. .. , And... | |
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