| 1830 - 550 pages
...admirable and frequently quoted lines of Walter Scott so truly applicable :— " ' Oh ! Woman, in onr hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering аяреп made : — When care and anguish wring the brow A MINISTERING ANGEL THOU!1 * BUCKINGHAM... | |
| Adrian Russell Terry - Ecuador - 1834 - 306 pages
...to the support and protection of whom, she devoted herself and the whole of her moderate fortune. "' 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." The Roman Catholic religion is of course the religion... | |
| Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...dying moments of her lover made her dumb. " O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and bard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " Hearing a bustle in the room, Adderfang now spoke,... | |
| James Montgomery - 1835 - 360 pages
...every day. Go, visit thou, in their distress, THE WIDOW and THE FATHERLESS. A TALE WITHOUT A NAME. " O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " SCOTT'S Marmiont canto vi.... | |
| Christian biography - 1836 - 436 pages
...required. Sickness may call for this, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " Watson anguish wring the brow, A ministering augel them l" Unwilling, and, indeed,,nnable to subscribe to... | |
| Religion - 1836 - 432 pages
...for this, and females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " O woman ! in onr houn of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" Unwilling, and. indeed, unable to subscribe to... | |
| Michael Scott - 1836 - 462 pages
...too deep for utterance, or the fear of disturbing the dying moments of her lover made her dumb. " 0, Woman! in our hours of ease, . . Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the tight quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" Hearing... | |
| English literature - 1836 - 596 pages
...eyes, had the expected stroke of death fallen upon him. In this unfortunate dilemma, a woman— " Oh ! woman in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A minist'ring angel then art thou." An actress of the company... | |
| Michael Scott - 1837 - 330 pages
...too deep for utterance, or the fear of disturbing the dying moments of her lover made her d umb. " О woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, ^V ministering angel thou !" Hearing a bustle in the room, Adderfang now spoke,... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...even to many of these, the following lines are not always inappropriate or inapplicable. Oh Woman I in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ; And variable as the shade By the light qnivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! — Scott. The... | |
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