| Stephen T. Mitchell - 1827 - 246 páginas
...splendour. Truly did the poet speak when he observed •Oh ! woman in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard to please ; And variable as the shade...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel, thou." . It was the peculiar spirit of proud acquiescence in the general feeling of hate to the existing form... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm graf von Bismark - 1827 - 538 páginas
...(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 "... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 260 páginas
...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 was slow, for the stamina of my constitution, originally firm, had at length given way,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 392 páginas
...true, arc the exquisite lines of our mighty minstrel. t 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 biotr, A ministering angel thou! My recovery... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 páginas
...light quivering a^pf-n made; When pain and anguish •, nng the brow, A ministering angel thoii! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the...plaintive voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying mm She stooped her by the . .'..'iiel's side, She filled the helm, and back she hied, And with surprise... | |
| 1829 - 760 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1829 - 378 páginas
...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 tliou ! My recovery was slow, for the stamina of my constitution, originally firm, had at length given... | |
| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 páginas
...from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !» — XXX. O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade...voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying man. She stoop'd her by the runnel's side, But in abhorrence backward drew; For, oozing from the mountain's... | |
| John Angell James - 1830 - 236 páginas
...females seem both formed and inclined by nature to yield it. " Oh woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, . And variable as the shade...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" Unwilling, and, indeed, unable to subscribe to the former part of this description, I do most readily... | |
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