 | Agnes Strickland - 1855 - Страниц: 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,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - Страниц: 610
...Like mist before the zephyr's sigh. Seoffs Rokéby. O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uneertain, eoy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. Seott' a Still panting o'er a erowd to reign, More joy it gives to woman's breast To make ten frigid... | |
 | Percy Bolingbroke St. John - 1855 - Страниц: 168
...described than by one who generally was neither poetical nor a correct picturer of the sex : — " in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,...By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and sickness wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." It is usually considered gallant and romantic to... | |
 | Otto Augustus Wall - 1922 - Страниц: 632
...Charity deserve the adoration of every true man! Scott expressed the same idea in one of his poems : "O, woman! In our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; AVhen pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!" During the French Revolution, toward... | |
 | Elisabeth Williams Anthony Dexter, Elisabeth Anthony Dexter - 1924 - Страниц: 286
...have become proverbial are inherited partly from the distaff side ? CHAPTER IV THE MINISTERING ANGEL "O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!" THIS qualified compliment has been paid to woman in all ages, and until recently it has been supposed... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - Страниц: 966
...or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst 1 " O Woman I in our hours of ease Uncertain; coy, and hard to please,...quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brows, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When with the baron's casque... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - Страниц: 424
...woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By i,he light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish...nigh streamlet ran ; Forgot were hatred, wrongs, and frars ; The plaintive voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying man. She stooped her by the runnel's... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 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... | |
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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... 
