| James Grant - 1847 - 388 páginas
...Waterloo the battle was yet raging with as much fury as ever. CHAPTER XIII. THE SISTER OF CHARITY. " O woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " Marmion. WHEN Ronald again became conscious that he was yet in the land of the living, he found... | |
| James M'Henry - 1848 - 470 páginas
...as he was able to walk stoutly enough, was accomplished speedily and without accident. CHAPTER XIII. O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! SCOTT. The excitement — the mixture of alarm and joy produced on Charles's arrival at the house of... | |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1848 - 566 páginas
...favorites : they go down much better than them old-fashioned staves o' Watts. " Oh woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...aspen made : When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministerin' angel thou." If I didn't touch it off to the nines it's a pity. I never heerd you preach... | |
| Ariel Ivers Cummings - 1849 - 200 páginas
...at such a moment felt, in all its truth and life, the glowing language of the poet, when he sang, " O ! woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou !" Have you not felt indeed that language is inadequate to picture the reality as it is, or to describe... | |
| Samuel Ware Fisher - 1850 - 28 páginas
...furnishes a firm ground of confidence in respect to usefulness. A poet of the last generation writes Oh! woman in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou." Admirable as is the compliment in the closing lines, yet you will not regard it as redeeming the severe... | |
| William Sidney Gibson - 1850 - 266 páginas
...know that the Earl in his confinement was ere long solaced by her society and tender care : — " Oh woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " The Government proceeded expeditiously against their unhappy captives. An impeachment was agreed... | |
| 1851 - 68 páginas
...a firm ground of confidence in respect to usefulness. A poet of the last generation writes— " Oh! woman in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and hard...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." . ed amidst the practical relations of society, and who has formed herself to decision in action, can... | |
| Mary Matilda Howard - 1850 - 426 páginas
...By-the-by, I never very much admired another celebrated description of the sex, by Sir Walter Scott— Oh, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard...light, quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish lave the brow, A ministering angel thou ! " A good nurse implies many valuable qualities,'' said Mrs.... | |
| Confessor - 1851 - 336 páginas
...destruction, when, had he but been ruled by me, he would now have been safe at Paris or the Hague." CHAPTEK X. O, Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! WALTER SCOTT. As, unlike his illustrious predecessors in suffering, Albert Lyndesay was not deemed... | |
| Henry Drury - 1851 - 386 páginas
...тrXака Matavöpov тrap' aкVцovos, о ' * ' • ie j. paaaay r¡ кат iocvecpeis, Jïlarmton. O WOMAN, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! Scott. отrоí/ 0 а сvaерws ar¡cwv iueXos otкTpov /taXáic ao1 кaTa9pr¡vei. XtVcro/uai,... | |
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