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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 ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the... "
The Farmers' Alliance History and Agricultural Digest - Page 647
by Nelson A. Dunning - 1891 - 742 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 61

1835 - 700 pages
...appointed burden I Compare the beautifully delicate, but still kindred lines of Sir Walter Scott — ' 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 ! ' Or...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on ..., Volume 4

1808 - 416 pages
...injured Clara alone remains — he cries for water to slake his thirst, on which the poet exclaims: * 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 ! — "...
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The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volume 4

1808 - 546 pages
...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, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 4, Part 1

1808 - 596 pages
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Pf blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !"— {5, 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 die brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce...
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Marmion;: A Tale of Flodden Field, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 pages
...groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — • XXXI. 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...
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The Literary Panorama, Volume 4

1808 - 742 pages
...or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring. To »Ukc my d\ ir.g. thirst t • _0, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade Bv the light quivering aspen imde; When pain and anguiih wring ihe hrow, A ministering angel, thou!...
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Letters from Portugal and Spain: Comprising an Account of the Operations of ...

1809 - 518 pages
...assiduity towards them, that it brought forcibly to my recollection that beautiful passage in Marmion. 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. Having...
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Select Reviews, Volumes 1-2

1809 - 914 pages
...Page, squire, or groom, one cup Of blessed water from the spring, To »lake 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 brou , A ministering angel thou ! —...
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Letters from Portugal and Spain: Comprising an Account of the Operations of ...

Adam Neale - 1809 - 514 pages
...assiduity towards them, that it brought forcibly to my recollection that beautiful passage in Marmion. 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 then. ceeded...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 1

Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 pages
...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, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce...
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