 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 400 pages
...yet even to many of these, the following lines are not always inappropriate or inapplicable. • Oh Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! Scott. girdle of love bursts from under the bosom... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst t" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made f When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents... | |
 | Women - 1825 - 386 pages
...soul, to give vent to that bursting sorrow which threatened the destruction of her own existence ! " O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to pleas*, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When Pain and Anguish wring the... | |
 | Stephen T. Mitchell - Virginia - 1827 - 246 pages
...its most brilliant flood of light and splendour. Truly did the poet speak when he observed •Oh ! woman in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard...shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel, thou." . It was the peculiar spirit of proud acquiescence... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 260 pages
...universal man has acknowledged them to be true, are the exquisite lines of our mighty minstrel. Oh 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 ! My recovery... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm graf von Bismark - Cavalry drill and tactics - 1827 - 538 pages
...mutable goddess (1). (C) Petty warfare. The strategical object of war is the defeat of the enemy*. (1) " Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade, By the light quivering aspen made." Such is fortune, without even possessing the redeeming quality which the poet allows to the lady "... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...the spring, To s hike my dying thirst!» — XXX. O, Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, aud hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspea made, — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 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...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... | |
 | 1829 - 760 pages
...for tliis, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. ' O woman ! in our liours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; AVhen pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !' '"• Unwilling, and indeed, unable... | |
 | John Angell James - Domestic relations - 1830 - 236 pages
...required. Sickness may call for this, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...By the light, quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" Unwilling, and, indeed, unable to subscribe to... | |
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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... 
