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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... "
Exercises in Reading and Recitation - Page 143
edited by - 1828 - 251 pages
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...save the sweet and consolatory dictates of the purest pity and compassion for suffering humanity. " O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Nothing could exceed the tender and unwearied care, with which she nursed him night and day, assisted...
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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...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! ' Or the more passionate breathings of poor Zuleika's tenderness, in the verses of Lord Byron : '...
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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...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — " P. 362. And Clara comes to his relief. He learns from her the fate of Constance — his anguish...
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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...quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring die brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 1

Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 pages
...pain wrung forth a lowly moan, And half he murmured, — " Is there none, Of all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed...ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents-said, When, with the baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran : Forgot were hatred,...
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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...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. Having discharged my djity at the hospital, and taken a list of the corps and numbers of the wounded,...
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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...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel then. ceeded to visit a house further to the left, which was occupied by the French soldiery. In general...
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Select Reviews, Volumes 1-2

1809 - 914 pages
...all my halls have nurst, Page, squire, or groom, one cup Of blessed water from the spring, To ğlake my dying thirst!" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease,...quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brou , A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the baron's...
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Thoughts on the Cause of Evil, Physical and Moral: In a Series of Letters

Henry William Lovett - 1810 - 190 pages
...best gift to man : — . " Oh, woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; 136 And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " M AUMION. That Adam might fully appreciate the value of such a blessing, and the society of his...
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Metrical effusions, or, Verses on various occasions [by B. Barton].

Bernard Barton - 1812 - 248 pages
...often stopt, by fond regret inclin'd, To "cast one longing lingering look behind." STANZAS ON WOMAN. " O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made." WAITER SCOTT, HAST thou not mark'd the smiling deep AH tranquil and serene ; When every zephyr seem'd...
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