| 1808 - 704 pages
...!" The ensuing stauza ia eminently 1>«tiful :— " O woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, ooy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. W lirii pain and anguish wring the brew A ministering angel thou !— . Scarce were the piteous accent!... | |
| 1818 - 480 pages
...object beloved. — These beautiful lines from Marmion might have furnished him with the hint: — " Oh woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, WTienpain and sickness wring the brow A ministering angel thou!" Or these, from Dodsley's fragment,... | |
| 1818 - 552 pages
...ohject heloved. — These heautiful lines from Marmion might have furnished him with the hint: — " Oh woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variahle as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, H' In n jut i ii and richness wring the hrow... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 1808 - 596 pages
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Pf blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — f3, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...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... | |
| 1808 - 426 pages
...this fault. O woman ! in our hours of taut, Uncertain, coy, »nd hard to please, Ami variable a.« the shade, By the light quivering aspen made; When...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... | |
| 1808 - 642 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 fiy the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministerinsr amgel thou... | |
| 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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