| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 páginas
...save the sweet and consolatory dictates of the purest pity and compassion for suffering humanity. " 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... | |
| 1835 - 700 páginas
...appointed burden I Compare the beautifully delicate, but still kindred lines of Sir Walter Scott — ' 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... | |
| 1808 - 596 páginas
...To slake my dying thirst !"— {5, 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 die brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's... | |
| Walter Scott - 1808 - 526 páginas
...groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — • XXXI. 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... | |
| 1808 - 416 páginas
...injured Clara alone remains — he cries for water to slake his thirst, on which the poet exclaims: * 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... | |
| 1808 - 546 páginas
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst ! ' 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... | |
| 1809 - 518 páginas
...assiduity towards them, that it brought forcibly to my recollection that beautiful passage in Marmion. 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... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 páginas
...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — 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... | |
| 1809 - 914 páginas
...nurst, Page, squire, or groom, one cup Of blessed water from the spring, To »lake my dying thirst!" — 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... | |
| Adam Neale - 1809 - 514 páginas
...assiduity towards them, that it brought forcibly to my recollection that beautiful passage in Marmion. 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... | |
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