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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... "
Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ... - Page 247
edited by - 1880
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...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...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Nothing could exceed the tender and unwearied care, with which she nursed him night and day, assisted...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 61

1835 - 700 pages
...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...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! ' Or the more passionate breathings of poor Zuleika's tenderness, in the verses of Lord Byron : '...
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The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volume 4

English literature - 1808 - 546 pages
...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...plaintive voice alone she hears, -. . ,' . Sees but the dying man.'' Page 3f)S. Struggles through Life. Zvols. By John Harriott. [Coitlinuedfromp. 336. Vol....
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Marmion;: A Tale of Flodden Field, Volume 1

Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1808 - 526 pages
...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...streamlet ran : Forgot were hatred, wrongs, and fears j The plaintive voice alone she hears, Sees but the dying man. She stooped her by the runnel's side,...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on ..., Volume 4

1808 - 416 pages
...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...and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — " P. 362. And Clara comes to his relief. He learns from her the fate of Constance — his anguish...
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The Literary Panorama, Volume 4

English literature - 1808 - 742 pages
...And variable as the shade Bv the light quivering aspen imde; When pain and anguiih wring ihe hrow, A ministering angel, thou! — Scarce were the piteous...maid To the nigh streamlet ran : Forgot were hatred, wrong*, and fears ; The plaintive voice alone she hears, !>ees but the dying man. She stooped IKT by...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 4, Part 1

1808 - 596 pages
...to bring Pf blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !"— {5, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable...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...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 1

Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 494 pages
...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...ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents-said, When, with the baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran : Forgot were hatred,...
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Letters from Portugal and Spain: Comprising an Account of the Operations of ...

France - 1809 - 518 pages
...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...anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. Having discharged my djity at the hospital, and taken a list of the corps and numbers of the wounded,...
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Letters from Portugal and Spain: Comprising an Account of the Operations of ...

Adam Neale - France - 1809 - 514 pages
...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...pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel then. ceeded to visit a house further to the left, which was occupied by the French soldiery. In general...
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