 | John William Ward (earl of Dudley.) - 1840 - 438 páginas
...precedent and authority is in my favour. Indeed, we crossed the Alps together this spring, but that took up only three days. It is but justice to her...the rage to see that a visit to it seems almost an indispensible requisite for appearing on equal terms with one's neighbours in society. A letter from... | |
 | Prideaux John Selby - 1842 - 488 páginas
...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 1" The vignette represents one of the Aspens growing upon the Lady's Islet, in Loch Katrine. Our figure... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 páginas
...Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By tlie light quivering a*pen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou 1 — Scarce were the piteous accents paid, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1856 - 470 páginas
...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 1 My recovery was slow, for the stamina of my constitution, originally firm, had at length given way,... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 540 páginas
...ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And \ariable .is the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou 1 " '* As she stoop'd his brow to lave — ' Is it the hand of Clare,' he said, * Or injured Constance,... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 páginas
...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 1 — SCOTT, Marmion, canto vi. st. 30. — - O WOMAN ! lovely woman ! nature made thee To temper man... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 páginas
...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 ! 1 Canto vi. St. 30. " Charge, Chester, charge ! on, Stanley, on !" Were the last words of Marmion. Canto... | |
 | Autumn leaves - 1882 - 210 páginas
...of Wantley.' 6. ' I knew a boor — a clownish card, His only friends were pigs and cows.' I 12. ' When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou.' 1. ' I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.' 2. ' Blow! let us... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 932 páginas
...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 1 (Scott. Not she with trait' rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She,... | |
 | Samuel Jones Tilden - 1885 - 666 páginas
...peculiarly belong to the female sex. The poet makes the dying Marmion exclaim, — " O woman I ... When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou 1 " In enthusiasm, — the tendency to idealize, — in the spirit of sacrifice and devotion that grows... | |
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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... 
