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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! "
Laconics - Page 258
by Hanford Lennox Gordon - 1912 - 302 pages
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register, Volume 26

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!...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 61

1835 - 700 pages
...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...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 Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volume 4

1808 - 546 pages
...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...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...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on ..., Volume 4

1808 - 416 pages
...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...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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Marmion;: A Tale of Flodden Field, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 pages
...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...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...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 4, Part 1

1808 - 596 pages
...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...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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Letters from Portugal and Spain: Comprising an Account of the Operations of ...

1809 - 518 pages
...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...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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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 1

Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 pages
...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...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...
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Letters from Portugal and Spain: Comprising an Account of the Operations of ...

Adam Neale - 1809 - 514 pages
...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...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
...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...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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