 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - Liczba stron: 418
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" XXX. O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel tinm ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1855 - Liczba stron: 346
...described by Sir Walter Scott, than Mary Stuart: 1 Nelson's Deposition—Anderson's Collections. " Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" Such had she been to her first consort, the sickly, stammering, unattractive Francis, proving herself,... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - Liczba stron: 494
...of heaven, — Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love. — OTWAY. O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! — SIR WALTEH SCOTT. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And... | |
 | 1916 - Liczba stron: 892
...eludes him. There is hardly a man who would not to-day echo Sir Walter Scott's familiar lines, — O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. It is not woman's fault. The poetry of the world is filled with the words ' to win' and 'to woo'; one... | |
 | 1916 - Liczba stron: 928
...him. There is hardly a man who would not to-day echo Sir Walter Scott's familiar lines, — O Woman 1 in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. It is not woman's fault. The poetry of the world is filled with the words ' to win' and 'to woo'; one... | |
 | 1833 - Liczba stron: 212
...savage mood, Endure and sbrink not, we of nobler clay May temper it to bear,— it is but for a day. O, woman! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou! SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental day, Free, gen'rous, and refin'd, Descend... | |
 | 1891 - Liczba stron: 760
...from our first great poet, Shakespeare's — "Frailty, thy name is woman ! " Or with Scott's — О woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. (Afaruiion, c. vi., s. 30. MAC THE LAMP ACRE.1 ["BITS ABOUT EDINBURGH"— No. 3.] THE ancient collegiate... | |
 | 1867 - Liczba stron: 420
...of "Female Suffrage" cut short with an "&c.," when ho had taken what Beemed to answer his purpose : "O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow A ministering Angel thou .'" "The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! The Man, the Hermit, sigh'd — till Woman smiled."... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - 1879 - Liczba stron: 278
...smiled. But the trouble about that is it is too old. (Laughter.) • Then some one else has said : "Oh! woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish cloud the brow A ministering angel thou." But that is old, and that is hackneyed. (Laughter.) Some... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1986 - Liczba stron: 626
...civilisation, coronets as well as tiaras, real crowns as well 1 Probably these lines from Martnion xxx: O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! as real diamonds. If they were artists, it was from the common civilisation of both sexes that they... | |
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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... 
