 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 92 pages
...from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" xxx. O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uneertain, eoy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the...and anguish wring the brow. A ministering angel thou ! — Searee were the piteous aeeents said, When, with the Itaron's easque, the maid To the nigh streamlet... | |
 | 1839 - 430 pages
...favorites ; they go down much >ctter than them old fashioned staves o' Watts. 'Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain und anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou.' • If I did'nt touch it off to the nines, it's... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1839 - 838 pages
...favorites; they go down muchbetter 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 quivering aspen made : VVhcu pain and anguish wring the brow, A ioiuisttrim; ungelthon.' If I didn't touch it oil to the... | |
 | 1840 - 368 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 336 pages
...of her own. VOL. nr. c Well might our great and good Scott say of women — O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! From being less frequented by travellers than most other places in Italy, Ancona possesses no good... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 388 pages
...at the risk of her own. Well might our great and good Scott say of women — O woman ! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! From being less frequented by travellers than most other places in Italy, Ancona possesses no good... | |
 | Isaac Butt - 1840 - 1124 pages
...upon the duties of the dead, from the hour of dissolution. CHAPTER VI. O woman ! ever in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! Walter Scott. IT is not my intention to dwell upon the harrowing recollections of those hours of... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...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...aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, 8 A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque,... | |
 | Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline) - 1840 - 206 pages
...I" i THE DUKE. A NOVEL. BY MRS. GREY. Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard 10 please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! Scorr. k IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. PHILADELPHIA : LEA AND BLANCHARD. 1840. (. /^ UNIVERSITY LIBRARY IR... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...to 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.8 She stoop'd her by the runners side,8 But in abhorrence backward drew ; For, oozing from... | |
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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... 
